Hyperthreading and Java (was RE: Tale of two servers)

2005-02-25 Thread Peter Crowther
From: Graham Reeds [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Also disable HyperThreading in the BIOS on the new Dell. HT and Java is not a happy combination. Interesting... do you have any recommended reading on that, Graham? - Peter

Re: Hyperthreading and Java (was RE: Tale of two servers)

2005-02-25 Thread Shankar Unni
Peter Crowther wrote: From: Graham Reeds [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Also disable HyperThreading in the BIOS on the new Dell. HT and Java is not a happy combination. Interesting... do you have any recommended reading on that, Graham? Love these urban-legend types of warnings (don't flash your

Re: Tale of two servers

2005-02-24 Thread Graham Reeds
The offender is a super duper new dell desktop with 4gb of ram, etc. It's running java 1.5 and is committed to nothing by tomcat. Also disable HyperThreading in the BIOS on the new Dell. HT and Java is not a happy combination. G.

RE: Tale of two servers

2005-02-14 Thread Dola Woolfe
Thanks for all responses. I have some new info. 1. Reverse lookup is disabled on both machines. That probably rules out DNS resolution. 2. The better-but-slower machine is running java 1.5. The worse-but-faster machine is running 1.4.2 with the compatibility package. 3. Finally, and the most

RE: Tale of two servers

2005-02-14 Thread Peter Crowther
From: Dola Woolfe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 3. Finally, and the most hopeful point, the better-but-slower server is running Norton virus services. Restarting the machine in safe mode (w/ networkin) solved the problem. Does this settle it? If so, what particular setting in Norton is

RE: Tale of two servers

2005-02-14 Thread Dola Woolfe
Sorry for being dumb, but where is that option? Can't seem to find it. The Option categories I have are Auto-Protect Script Blocing Manual Scan Email Instant Messenger LiveUpdate Threat Categories Mescellaneous Thanks --- Peter Crowther [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Dola Woolfe

RE: Tale of two servers

2005-02-14 Thread Peter Crowther
From: Dola Woolfe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sorry for being dumb, but where is that option? Can't seem to find it. The Option categories I have are Auto-Protect Sorry, Dola, I meant auto-protect - different AVs have different names for it. You may wish to turn it off temporarily by

Re: Tale of two servers

2005-02-14 Thread Parsons Technical Services
@jakarta.apache.org Sent: Monday, February 14, 2005 12:21 PM Subject: RE: Tale of two servers Sorry for being dumb, but where is that option? Can't seem to find it. The Option categories I have are Auto-Protect Script Blocing Manual Scan Email Instant Messenger LiveUpdate Threat Categories

Re: Tale of two servers

2005-02-14 Thread Mladen Turk
Dola Woolfe wrote: Thanks for all responses. I have some new info. 3. Finally, and the most hopeful point, the better-but-slower server is running Norton virus services. Restarting the machine in safe mode (w/ networkin) solved the problem. Does this settle it? If so, what particular setting in

RE: Tale of two servers

2005-02-14 Thread Peter Crowther
From: Mladen Turk [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Antivirus software on a production system? You must be joking ;)! rant Unfortunately not. All too often, corporate policy says that *all* boxes must have AV installed on them, and it is increasingly a sacking offence to disable it. The larger the

RE: Tale of two servers

2005-02-14 Thread Dola Woolfe
Hi, Proud to say I'm not going to cover my ass (if I don't have to :). But I remember there were some worms that hit your computer even if you didn't do anything on it. One day my non-av'ed computer just went down with SoBig, I think, while Norton caught it on all other computers. So perhaps it

Re: Tale of two servers

2005-02-14 Thread Jason Bainbridge
On Mon, 14 Feb 2005 13:41:22 -0800 (PST), Dola Woolfe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Proud to say I'm not going to cover my ass (if I don't have to :). But I remember there were some worms that hit your computer even if you didn't do anything on it. One day my non-av'ed computer just went

Re: Tale of two servers

2005-02-14 Thread Joel
Proud to say I'm not going to cover my ass (if I don't have to :). Covering your backside is fine, just make sure you cover it with something appropriate and effective. But I remember there were some worms that hit your computer even if you didn't do anything on it.

RE: Tale of two servers

2005-02-11 Thread George Sexton
The most common thing for this kind of issue is DNS resolution. George Sexton MH Software, Inc. http://www.mhsoftware.com/ Voice: 303 438 9585 On Thu, 10 Feb 2005 01:19:10 -0800 (PST), Dola Woolfe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The offender is a super duper new dell desktop with 4gb of ram,

Re: Tale of two servers

2005-02-10 Thread Vinny
More details please. Are both machine running the same version of Java. Are they both connecting to an external database? Exact same versions of Tomcat 5.5.x ? On Thu, 10 Feb 2005 01:19:10 -0800 (PST), Dola Woolfe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm running TC5.5 on two different servers in

RE: Tale of two servers

2005-02-10 Thread Mike Curwen
does the fast one run any anti-virus software? That's been known to kill performance. Mike Curwen - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]