[Deploying Sakai] database connections disappearing

[Charles Hedrick]

Since we moved from 2.5 to 2.6 I've been seeing databaSe connections  
disappear. We start out with 300. We have set up dbcp to keep a  
constant 300. However over time we start building up connections that  
dbcp thinks are in use, but never get returned. The rate is about 3  
per day. The obvious suspicion would be that Sakai is getting a  
connection from the pool and not returning it. However doing "netstat"  
it's clear that the TCP connections are no longer open. I doubt that  
the server is closing them. It didn't in the past, and with a nearly  
idle front end we don't lose any. The amount we lose seems to be  
connected to activity. There's no way Sakai itself could be closing  
the TCP connection, since we don't set the option that lets the  
program access the underlying connection, and of course closing a  
pooled connection simply returns it to the pool. it looks to me like a  
malfunction in dbcp or pool. However it doesn't appear that dbcp has  
changed since 2.5.

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