JBoss unresponsive due to http connector threads blocked in org.apache.naming.resources.ProxyDirContext.cacheLoad()

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • When performance deterioriates, a jnlp file (that launches a Swing client on a client machine) cannot be downloaded.
  • Many http connector threads blocked with the following stack trace:
    Thread: http-0.0.0.0-8881-35 : priority:5, demon:true, threadId:164, threadState:BLOCKED, threadLockName:org.apache.nam
    org.apache.naming.resources.ProxyDirContext.cacheLoad(ProxyDirContext.java:1597)
    org.apache.naming.resources.ProxyDirContext.cacheLookup(ProxyDirContext.java:1448)
    org.apache.naming.resources.ProxyDirContext.lookup(ProxyDirContext.java:282)
    org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationContext.getResource(ApplicationContext.java:498)
    org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationContextFacade.getResource(ApplicationContextFacade.java:178)
    jnlp.sample.servlet.JnlpResource.(JnlpResource.java:135)
    jnlp.sample.servlet.JnlpResource.(JnlpResource.java:108)
    jnlp.sample.servlet.JnlpResource.(JnlpResource.java:97)
    jnlp.sample.servlet.JnlpDownloadServlet.handleBasicDownload(JnlpDownloadServlet.java:224)
    jnlp.sample.servlet.JnlpDownloadServlet.locateResource(JnlpDownloadServlet.java:211)
    jnlp.sample.servlet.JnlpDownloadServlet.handleRequest(JnlpDownloadServlet.java:139)
    jnlp.sample.servlet.JnlpDownloadServlet.doGet(JnlpDownloadServlet.java:113)
    javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:697)
    javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:810)
    org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:252)
    org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:173)
    
  • Thread dumps show the number of http connector threads is at the maximum value, the Connector maxThreads in server.xml.

Environment

  • JBoss AS 4.0.x

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