Tomcat 6 memory leaks log entries

Question

Below is outtake of unique entries in my Catalina.out file on CentOS machine. I\'m running Tomcat 6 with spring 3 and my application. There is whole bunch of them so I just

Answer 1

Set up a Servlet to manage this in its destroy() method. The threads can check a flag to see if they must continue or not.

In your servlet, do the following in the destroy method. You will obviously need to be able to have access to a Collection but how you get that really depends on how your system is set up.

destroy() {
    for (MyThread thread : myThreads) {
        thread.stopProcessing();
    }
}

Your MyThread class will have something like this:

public class MyThread {
    private boolean finished = false;

    @Override
    public void run() {
        while (!finished) {
            //do something
        }
    }

    public void stopProcessing() {
        finished = true;
    }
}