Tomcat Working Directory

[paul king]

Hi,

My app seems to be taking up lots of memory which is ever increasing to the point where I need to restart the application server. The app uses images constantly and thought it could be related to the tomcat working directory constantly being added to with new uploaded images.

1) Is there a way to configure how long image files within the working directory are stored for?
2)If I delete files from this working directory, can anyone confirm that this will in no way affect the original files? - apart from if I try to load this image through the app it may take longer as it will no longer be cached.

Any advice will be muchly appreciated!

Thankyou

[Tim Holloway]

I'm afraid it's up to you to clean out the Tomcat work directory.

The Tomcat work directory, incidentally, is the same directory that webapps will be pointed at when they do a java.io.File get temp directory method call. I think you can therefore override it on the java command line, but there should be a variable you can set in the catalina script.

Oh never mind. I'm not that lazy today. It's CATALINA_TMPDIR, and its default value is CATALINA_BASE/temp.

You can add a CATALINA_BASE/bin/setenv script (.bat or .sh, depending on OS) and make the assignment there if it's convenient.