java - SQLRecoverableException: I/O Exception: Connection reset

Question

Yesterday evening I left the office with a running Java program written by me. It should insert a lot of records into our company database (Oracle) using a JDBC connection. This morning when I came back to work I saw this error (caught by a try-catch):

java.sql.SQLRecoverableException: I/O Exception: Connection reset

The program wrote almost all records before getting this problem, but what if it happens early (just minutes after I leave the office at evening)? I cannot understand what happened, I contacted my database admin and he said there was no particular issue on the database.

Any idea on what happened and what can I do do to avoid it?

Answer 1

The error occurs on some RedHat distributions. The only thing you need to do is to run your application with parameter java.security.egd=file:///dev/urandom:

java -Djava.security.egd=file:///dev/urandom [your command]