Weird ... I just downloaded Tomcat 5 yesterday ... I wonder why I didn't
grab the latest release.

Derek Mahar wrote:

>Try installing Tomcat 5.0.18. Tomcat 5.0.16 has a memory leak. Not
>sure in which version this leak first appeared.
>
>Derek
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Yiannis Mavroukakis [mailto:yiannis@(protected)]
>Sent: January 20, 2004 5:47 AM
>To: 'Tomcat Users List'
>Subject: RE: Eclipse+Ant+Tomcat 5 - problems
>
>
>Since you are using Eclipse, why not try out the Sysdeo Tomcat plugin?
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Ruth, Brice [mailto:BRuth@(protected)]
>Sent: 19 January 2004 23:09
>To: tomcat-user@(protected)
>Subject: Eclipse+Ant+Tomcat 5 - problems
>
>
>I'm starting to try out Tomcat 5 in our development environment, which
>has been running Tomcat 4.1.x to-date.
>
>Preface: our IDE is Eclipse, I use Ant with the catalina-ant tasks to
>install/remove our web-app from a local Tomcat installation. Everything
>has worked fine, though I've noticed that after my first install (once I
>start Eclipse and Tomcat) - anytime I remove/install the web-app, the
>install appears to init the app twice (my load-on-init servlet's are
>called twice, etc.) I never figured out what caused this, but it didn't
>negatively impact anything, so I didn't care.
>
>Now, with Tomcat 5 ... after a little tweaking, to my Eclipse
>environment, I was able to get my same install/remove task working with
>Ant. The only problem now is that after the initial install, when I do a
>remove/install, it seems to still init the app twice, only on the second
>init, it crokes. Talks about a property string that it can't find and
>then that it can't find the deployment directory for the app (the app is
>installed from a .WAR)
>
>Not good. So, I did some googling - found that apparent install/remove
>has been deprecated in favor of deploy/undeploy. Fine - so I tried using
>the deploy task. Apparently, ant doesn't have enough memory to deploy my
>90MB+ .WAR (installing never seemed to be a problem) - and when I looked
>for threads on the DeployTask generating "OutOfMemory" exceptions, it
>said to increase ant's memory ... which I can't, for the life of myself,
>figure out how to do with Eclipse. I've previously gone done the path of
>having ant fork, but it caused so many problems with our builds, I'd
>rather not revisit that.
>
>Does anybody have anything that can help me? I'm trying out Tomcat 5
>because Tomcat 4.1.x appears to have some pretty severe memory leaks
>with its install/remove operations - if I install/remove my web-app more
>than 2-3 times, Tomcat (not the Ant task and not Eclipse) runs
>OutOfMemory ... other users have reported that Tomcat 5 does much better
>in this arena.
>
>Advise on any of these issues is much appreciated!!
>
>Respectfully,
>Brice Ruth
>
>Brice D. Ruth
>Sr. IT Analyst
>Fiskars Brands, Inc.
>
>
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Brice D. Ruth
Sr. IT Analyst
Fiskars Brands, Inc.


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