Tomcat stopped without any log or any stack

Question

We have trouble with Tomcat 5.5 which stops at night on our production servers (Linux CentOS 4.8) and we have no idea why it stops... There is no Tomcat\'s log in catalina.out o

Answer 1

Most probably there is a stack-overflow exception. This is typical behavior of Tomcat when it happens. For example, you're trying to serialize to JSON or XML beans with cyclic dependencies (but without handling of the cycles).

Everytime I had this issue (several times) it always has been this one. All other stops are usually logged properly (like OutOfMemory etc).

This type of stops leaves no trace anywhere.