Tomcat.exe cause CPU Usage Spiking to 100%

[inforhunter]

about 100 Thinclients connect to VMs via VirtualCenter(U3) WebAccess.all the VMs reside on ESX 3.5(U3) host and VC on a VM.

The VC VM's CPU usage happended to spike to 100%.Tomcat.exe is the reason cause the problem.the tomcat log file increased rapidly,and be full filled with entries:"permissionDeniedException:the session is not authenticated".I noticed that,tomcat config file defined a paramater "Maxthread=150",and

I found "http-8080-processor150" in log, which means tomcat spawns up to 150 thread.reach the limitation.

I want to know is it sure that CPU usage will spike to 100% when tomcat thread reach its upper limit?

[Troy_Clavell]

I see a lot of things going on here... My first suggestion would be to find another method of connecting to your VM's other than through the WebUI.  This is, in my opinion, why your vCenter CPU is spiking.

Secondly, you are running a very old version of both vCenter and ESX.  I would also suggest getting up  to a the minimum, U6 for vCenter and U5 for ESX.

Finally, take a look a VMware View, it may offer up a better solution that the current on you are using.

[AndreTheGiant]

As written by Troy the webAccess is not designed for this task.

There is a thread limitation, but also memory limitation.

You can try to change those parameters, but I do not think that the architecture could be much scalable.

For this purpose there are some connection broker (VMware View has its own broker).

Andre

[godra]

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Removed Comments as they were all related to vSphere Beta.  Public Forums are not  meant for beta content.  Also, due to profanity, these comments were edited as well.

[AndreTheGiant]

The beta must not be used in production.

Install the 4.1 version, I suggest on a Windows Server 2008 R2.

Be sure to meet the minimum requirements: 3GB RAM and 2 cores.

Andre

[godra]

Hi,

Thanks mate.

I ll keep that in mind. I allocated 4 GB and i saw the diff between how it worked previously

Thanks again