Tomcat is opening too many jar files? Any Fix

Recently we deployed one struts application into production, after sometime if we try to find out the list of jar files opened, it showing two many jar files opened can anybody tell me why this happening?

lsof | grep struts

java       9762      root  mem       REG              253,1   2326673   31850728 /smanne/feat-01/app/WEB-INF/lib/struts2-core-2.0.14.jar
java       9762      root  mem       REG              253,1   2326673   16121954 /smanne/dev-01/app/WEB-INF/lib/struts2-core-2.0.14.jar
java       9762      root   47r      REG              253,1   2326673   16121954 /smanne/dev-01/app/WEB-INF/lib/struts2-core-2.0.14.jar
java       9762      root   50r      REG              253,1   2326673   16121954 /smanne/dev-01/app/WEB-INF/lib/struts2-core-2.0.14.jar
java       9762      root   51r      REG              253,1   2326673   16121954 /smanne/dev-01/app/WEB-INF/lib/struts2-core-2.0.14.jar
java       9762      root   53r      REG              253,1   2326673   16121954 /smanne/dev-01/app/WEB-INF/lib/struts2-core-2.0.14.jar
java       9762      root   54u      REG              253,1   2326673   16121954 /smanne/dev-01/app/WEB-INF/lib/struts2-core-2.0.14.jar
java       9762      root   56r      REG              253,1   2326673   16121954 /smanne/dev-01/app/WEB-INF/lib/struts2-core-2.0.14.jar
java       9762      root   57r      REG              253,1   2326673   16121954 /smanne/dev-01/app/WEB-INF/lib/struts2-core-2.0.14.jar
java       9762      root   58r      REG              253,1   2326673   16121954 /smanne/dev-01/app/WEB-INF/lib/struts2-core-2.0.14.jar
java       9762      root   59r      REG              253,1   2326673   16121954 /smanne/dev-01/app/WEB-INF/lib/struts2-core-2.0.14.jar
java       9762      root   60r      REG              253,1   2326673   16121954 /smanne/dev-01/app/WEB-INF/lib/struts2-core-2.0.14.jar
java       9762      root  113r      REG              253,1   2326673   31850728 /smanne/feat-01/app/WEB-INF/lib/struts2-core-2.0.14.jar
java       9762      root  120r      REG              253,1   2326673   16121954 /smanne/dev-01/app/WEB-INF/lib/struts2-core-2.0开发者_StackOverflow社区.14.jar
java      23871      root  mem       REG              253,1   2326674    6324271 /reports/dev-01/libs/struts2-core-2.0.14.jar
java      23871      root    6r      REG              253,1   2326674    6324271 /reports/dev-01/libs/struts2-core-2.0.14.jar

is there any method to share the jar files?

TOMCAT_HOME\lib\

You can place shared libraries into above dir.

Maybe

• Multiple resources are read from the file
• You do hot deploy and handles are still open from previous application context

EDIT

Well, i'm not a unix guru but i assume "lsof" shows open handles. So, every time a file stream is opened or closed, this will change.