Re: Connection attempt hangs when server is unresponsive

> My question is why this thread did not error out when it could not talk to
> the server? Could the server have been up when the connection started and
> went away in the middle causing errors? Could there be something we have
> overlooked in our conf that would time it out? When the db server came
> back, our thread count dropped from 200 down to 35 which is normal.
>
>
Look into

1- Setting the jdbc driver's login timeout
2- make sure that the connection attempts are not trying to do long name
resolution lookups
3- If you are using DBCP make sure tomcat is configured to remove abandoned
connections (removeAbandoned=true) and related parmeters are set to
reasonable value.

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