[Q] Tomcat sessions

[Daniel Schneller]

Hello!

My tomcat server's management application (4.1.27) shows an increasing
number of open sessions for a single webapp. Even when I shut down the
server and restart it, they don't go away.
Where does it store those? My server.xml does not have any persistence
settings enabled.

Thanks,
Daniel

 

[John C. Bollinger]

My tomcat server's management application (4.1.27) shows an increasing
number of open sessions for a single webapp. Even when I shut down the
server and restart it, they don't go away.
Where does it store those? My server.xml does not have any persistence
settings enabled.

Answering a different question, I'm afraid, but you should ensure that
you specify a positive and not too excessive default session timeout.
You should also make sure that your webapp doesn't set any session's
timeout to an unreasonable value. This combination should solve your
root problem, and might even solve the immediate problem (getting rid of
existing sessions). A webapp or Tomcat restart might be required.


John Bollinger
(e-mail address removed)

 

[Wendy S]

My tomcat server's management application (4.1.27) shows an increasing
number of open sessions for a single webapp. Even when I shut down the
server and restart it, they don't go away.
Where does it store those? My server.xml does not have any persistence
settings enabled.

Where they get stored depends on your configuration, but Tomcat does
serialize sessions across a restart by default.
http://jakarta.apache.org/tomcat/tomcat-4.1-doc/config/manager.html

 

[Daniel Schneller]

Thank you!

I will give it a try on monday.

Daniel

 

[Daniel Schneller]

Thank you!

I will give it a try on monday.

Daniel

Thank for the answers, it worked. And I changed a misbehaving script,
that set the session timeout to a much too large value.

Daniel