Re: very slow class loading on initial JSP/servlet request after restart

2009-02-26 Thread André Warnier
Sam Hokin wrote: André Warnier wrote: What in this directory path is (are) a symlink(s) ? /home/sites/ims/jcms/webapps/ROOT/WEB-INF/classes/org/apache/jsp/test6_jsp.class There are no symlinks in that path. Then the question is : why is that thing doing lstat's ? (I mean in the trace list

Re: very slow class loading on initial JSP/servlet request after restart

2009-02-26 Thread Sam Hokin
Caldarale, Charles R wrote: I'll poke around in the webapp classloader to see if I can find anything interesting, but in the meantime, is there a /net directory on the problematic server? If there is and it targets a remote file system, that might explain the long delay on these stat()

Re: very slow class loading on initial JSP/servlet request after restart

2009-02-26 Thread Sam Hokin
Sam Hokin wrote: Caldarale, Charles R wrote: I'll poke around in the webapp classloader to see if I can find anything interesting, but in the meantime, is there a /net directory on the problematic server? If there is and it targets a remote file system, that might explain the long delay on

RE: very slow class loading on initial JSP/servlet request after restart

2009-02-26 Thread Caldarale, Charles R
From: Jorge Medina [mailto:jmed...@e-dialog.com] Subject: RE: very slow class loading on initial JSP/servlet request after restart Just for curiosity, Is / included in your classpath ? Note that the classpath of interest is the one JDT uses, not any global one or any associated

Re: very slow class loading on initial JSP/servlet request after restart

2009-02-26 Thread Sam Hokin
Caldarale, Charles R wrote: Once you have your test Tomcat set up on the problematic server, try adding this line to the conf/logging.properties file: org.apache.jasper.level = ALL That will display a *lot* of information about what's going on during JSP compilation. One thing in particular

Re: very slow class loading on initial JSP/servlet request after restart

2009-02-26 Thread André Warnier
Sam Hokin wrote: Caldarale, Charles R wrote: Once you have your test Tomcat set up on the problematic server, try adding this line to the conf/logging.properties file: org.apache.jasper.level = ALL That will display a *lot* of information about what's going on during JSP compilation. One

Re: very slow class loading on initial JSP/servlet request after restart

2009-02-26 Thread Christopher Schultz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mark, On 2/25/2009 4:42 AM, Mark Thomas wrote: Ok. To summarise when you include net.ims.jcms.* in your imports the page compiles quickly but takes ages to respond to the first request. I wonder if this is related to loading a specific class in

Re: very slow class loading on initial JSP/servlet request after restart

2009-02-26 Thread Christopher Schultz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Sam, On 2/26/2009 10:50 AM, Sam Hokin wrote: Caldarale, Charles R wrote: I'll poke around in the webapp classloader to see if I can find anything interesting, but in the meantime, is there a /net directory on the problematic server? If there is

Re: very slow class loading on initial JSP/servlet request after restart

2009-02-26 Thread Pieter Temmerman
I'm glad you got it solved Sam. It was an exciting topic to follow. I haven't been reading the mailinglist for a long time, but there might be a good chance you got the longest thread in the mailinglist history :) Cheers. Pieter On Thu, 2009-02-26 at 10:31 -0600, Sam Hokin wrote: Caldarale,

Re: very slow class loading on initial JSP/servlet request after restart

2009-02-25 Thread Mark Thomas
Sam Hokin wrote: Mark Thomas wrote: Sam Hokin wrote: Thanks, Chris. I ran e2fsck with the -c option, which runs badblocks, when I tested it earlier. And I just ran badblocks again - 0 bad blocks found. I wish I could fix this by simply as swapping out a bad disk (notwithstanding Andre's

Re: very slow class loading on initial JSP/servlet request after restart

2009-02-25 Thread Pieter Temmerman
Thanks, Juha. Actually Pieter suggested it a little while ago, and I've been trying to get some information out of strace. The best I can do is to put strace in front of the java command that's inside catalina.sh. That's the command that shows with ps -ef when Tomcat is running. BUT,

Re: very slow class loading on initial JSP/servlet request after restart

2009-02-25 Thread Tim Funk
While I am late to this ... Is this an accurate summary? - Slow re-load on a server - Server is a production server - Other servers are OK so it can only be reproduced on production server - Initial looks at network seem to be no network activity - There seems to be a hint at File.exists()

Re: very slow class loading on initial JSP/servlet request after restart

2009-02-25 Thread André Warnier
Mark Thomas wrote: Sam Hokin wrote: Mark Thomas wrote: Sam Hokin wrote: [...] My thinking is if we can reduce the scope of the problem to importing a single class, we can then separate out that class and reduce the code in it bit by bit until we have the bare minimum that causes the

Re: very slow class loading on initial JSP/servlet request after restart

2009-02-25 Thread Sam Hokin
Tim Funk wrote: While I am late to this ... Is this an accurate summary? - Slow re-load on a server - Server is a production server - Other servers are OK so it can only be reproduced on production server - Initial looks at network seem to be no network activity - There seems to be a hint at

Re: very slow class loading on initial JSP/servlet request after restart

2009-02-25 Thread Sam Hokin
Pieter Temmerman wrote: Try this strace command: strace -f -etrace=\!futex,gettimeofday,clock_gettime -p PID_OF_TOMCAT_JAVA where PID_OF_TOMCAT_JAVA is the PID of your Tomcat, duh! :) Thanks! That certainly did the trick. The first time I ran strace against the Tomcat process, it brought

Re: very slow class loading on initial JSP/servlet request after restart

2009-02-25 Thread Sam Hokin
André Warnier wrote: Sam, because there is quite a bit of traffic on this issue, and because the exact description seems to change a bit over time (e.g. compilation-only or not), could you remake a summary of what you are sure of so far ? 1. Initial requests to ANY JSP page on a site,

Re: very slow class loading on initial JSP/servlet request after restart

2009-02-25 Thread Sam Hokin
NEW DISCOVERY - using a wildcard package import results in a much longer response delay! I've taken Mark's suggestion that I import individual classes rather than importing all with a wildcard to see if a particular class is slowing down classloading. It turns out that it's the WILDCARD

Re: very slow class loading on initial JSP/servlet request after restart

2009-02-25 Thread Sam Hokin
André Warnier wrote: What in this directory path is (are) a symlink(s) ? /home/sites/ims/jcms/webapps/ROOT/WEB-INF/classes/org/apache/jsp/test6_jsp.class There are no symlinks in that path. And how is this different from the other 2 systems that work fine ? It differs in no known way,

Re: very slow class loading on initial JSP/servlet request after restart

2009-02-25 Thread Sam Hokin
Caldarale, Charles R wrote: The key lines have a 3+ second response time: 2498 15:24:35 stat64(/net/ims/jcms/Object.class, 0x7b6b9c20) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) 3.020996 Most of the calls return in much less than a millisecond, but there are a few ENOENT (not all) responses

Re: very slow class loading on initial JSP/servlet request after restart

2009-02-24 Thread Sam Hokin
Mark Thomas wrote: Sam Hokin wrote: Thanks, Chris. I ran e2fsck with the -c option, which runs badblocks, when I tested it earlier. And I just ran badblocks again - 0 bad blocks found. I wish I could fix this by simply as swapping out a bad disk (notwithstanding Andre's desire for

Re: very slow class loading on initial JSP/servlet request after restart

2009-02-24 Thread Juha Laiho
So, looks like I'm late to the party, but will crash in nonetheless. Sam Hokin wrote: Christopher Schultz wrote: On 2/19/2009 6:23 PM, Sam Hokin wrote: The problem, which spontaneously appeared a few days before Christmas on this one server, is that the initial request of a JSP or servlet

Re: very slow class loading on initial JSP/servlet request after restart

2009-02-24 Thread Sam Hokin
Juha Laiho wrote: One tool that I haven't yet seen suggested is 'strace', the Linux system call tracer. This will show all the calls your application makes to the operating system. As you say the application is mostly idle during the delay, it is, in one way or another, waiting for some OS

Re: very slow class loading on initial JSP/servlet request after restart

2009-02-24 Thread János Löbb
On Feb 24, 2009, at 3:57 PM, Juha Laiho wrote: So, looks like I'm late to the party, but will crash in nonetheless. Sam Hokin wrote: Christopher Schultz wrote: On 2/19/2009 6:23 PM, Sam Hokin wrote: The problem, which spontaneously appeared a few days before Christmas on this one server,

Re: very slow class loading on initial JSP/servlet request after restart

2009-02-24 Thread János Löbb
On Feb 24, 2009, at 4:16 PM, Sam Hokin wrote: Juha Laiho wrote: One tool that I haven't yet seen suggested is 'strace', the Linux system call tracer. This will show all the calls your application makes to the operating system. As you say the application is mostly idle during the delay,

Re: very slow class loading on initial JSP/servlet request after restart

2009-02-24 Thread Sam Hokin
János Löbb wrote: How about just using tcpdump during the long delay and see what the machine is doing network wise ? I have, and network timeout was suggested earlier on this thread. There is no TCP activity of particular interest during the delay. I've hunted for, and not seen, anything

Re: very slow class loading on initial JSP/servlet request after restart

2009-02-24 Thread Christopher Schultz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Sam, On 2/24/2009 1:54 PM, Sam Hokin wrote: Mark Thomas wrote: Sam Hokin wrote: Thanks, Chris. I ran e2fsck with the -c option, which runs badblocks, when I tested it earlier. And I just ran badblocks again - 0 bad blocks found. I wish I

Re: very slow class loading on initial JSP/servlet request after restart

2009-02-23 Thread Sam Hokin
Christopher Schultz wrote: Sam, On 2/20/2009 6:44 PM, Sam Hokin wrote: Thanks, Chris. I ran e2fsck with the -c option, which runs badblocks, when I tested it earlier. And I just ran badblocks again - 0 bad blocks found. Did you run badblocks on the array, or on an individual disk? I would

Re: very slow class loading on initial JSP/servlet request after restart

2009-02-22 Thread Christopher Schultz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Sam, On 2/20/2009 6:44 PM, Sam Hokin wrote: Thanks, Chris. I ran e2fsck with the -c option, which runs badblocks, when I tested it earlier. And I just ran badblocks again - 0 bad blocks found. Did you run badblocks on the array, or on an

Re: very slow class loading on initial JSP/servlet request after restart

2009-02-21 Thread André Warnier
A summary so far : - the problem is : on one certain machine, when deploying any JSP which imports a certain self-made library of classes, that JSP takes an inordinate amount of time (one minute or more) to compile for a 5-line JSP - after compilation, the JSP in question responds totally

Re: very slow class loading on initial JSP/servlet request after restart

2009-02-20 Thread André Warnier
Caldarale, Charles R wrote: From: Sam Hokin [mailto:s...@ims.net] Subject: very slow class loading on initial JSP/servlet request after restart The server that's being a problem is a Dell PowerEdge 1950, quad dual core. Since I could never believe anything bad could be caused by chocolate

RE: very slow class loading on initial JSP/servlet request after restart

2009-02-20 Thread Peter Crowther
From: André Warnier [mailto:a...@ice-sa.com] From: Sam Hokin [mailto:s...@ims.net] The server that's being a problem is a Dell PowerEdge 1950, quad dual core. Since we have 4 processors here (do we, really? I am not so familiar with the multi-core architecture), can each of these

Re: very slow class loading on initial JSP/servlet request after restart

2009-02-20 Thread Christopher Schultz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Sam, On 2/19/2009 6:23 PM, Sam Hokin wrote: The problem, which spontaneously appeared a few days before Christmas on this one server, is that the initial request of a JSP or servlet takes AGES to respond, usually exceeding several minutes.

Re: very slow class loading on initial JSP/servlet request after restart

2009-02-20 Thread André Warnier
Christopher Schultz wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Sam, On 2/19/2009 6:23 PM, Sam Hokin wrote: The problem, which spontaneously appeared a few days before Christmas on this one server, is that the initial request of a JSP or servlet takes AGES to respond, usually

Re: very slow class loading on initial JSP/servlet request after restart

2009-02-20 Thread János Löbb
On Feb 20, 2009, at 10:25 AM, André Warnier wrote: Christopher Schultz wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Sam, On 2/19/2009 6:23 PM, Sam Hokin wrote: The problem, which spontaneously appeared a few days before Christmas on this one server, is that the initial request of a

Re: very slow class loading on initial JSP/servlet request after restart

2009-02-20 Thread David Smith
André Warnier wrote: Christopher Schultz wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Sam, On 2/19/2009 6:23 PM, Sam Hokin wrote: The problem, which spontaneously appeared a few days before Christmas on this one server, is that the initial request of a JSP or servlet takes AGES

Re: very slow class loading on initial JSP/servlet request after restart

2009-02-20 Thread Sam Hokin
Caldarale, Charles R wrote: 1) What are the servers that don't have a problem? One is a single AMD Athlon 64 2800+, running the 64-bit Sun JDK (same version). The other is a dual AMD Athlon MP 2000+, running the 32-bit Sun JDK (same version). And the bad server has 8 Intel Xeon E5310 CPUs

Re: very slow class loading on initial JSP/servlet request after restart

2009-02-20 Thread Sam Hokin
Ron McNulty wrote: Hi Sam You jar - does it include any JSP tag files written as JSP fragments? There are known issues in this area. The dependency management seems to get confused, resulting in lots of unnecessary compilation of the .tag files No, it doesn't, Ron. But thanks for the

Re: very slow class loading on initial JSP/servlet request after restart

2009-02-20 Thread Sam Hokin
Christopher Schultz wrote: Sam, On 2/19/2009 6:23 PM, Sam Hokin wrote: The problem, which spontaneously appeared a few days before Christmas on this one server, is that the initial request of a JSP or servlet takes AGES to respond, usually exceeding several minutes. Good... then you'll have

Re: very slow class loading on initial JSP/servlet request after restart

2009-02-20 Thread Sam Hokin
Caldarale, Charles R wrote: Run jstack several times during the delay, and then let's compare the set of thread dumps. What is the CPU utilization during the delay? OK, done. The CPU utilization during the delay is tiny, 1% or less. I've run jstack before, during, and after I've done a

Re: very slow class loading on initial JSP/servlet request after restart

2009-02-20 Thread Christopher Schultz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Sam, On 2/20/2009 12:11 PM, Sam Hokin wrote: jstack.0.txt ran BEFORE my test request. Your server is completely idle, here. jstack.1-11.txt ran DURING the long wait. Observing jstack.1.txt, it looks like this is the only running thread (complete

Re: very slow class loading on initial JSP/servlet request after restart

2009-02-20 Thread Sam Hokin
Christopher Schultz wrote: jstack.8.txt is the last thread dump where File.exists was stalled. http://ims.net/jstack/jstack.9.txt http://ims.net/jstack/jstack.10.txt http://ims.net/jstack/jstack.11.txt The server appears to be idle, here. It's a little weird that thread 9770 has NO STACK

Re: very slow class loading on initial JSP/servlet request after restart

2009-02-20 Thread David Smith
Sam Hokin wrote: Christopher Schultz wrote: jstack.8.txt is the last thread dump where File.exists was stalled. http://ims.net/jstack/jstack.9.txt http://ims.net/jstack/jstack.10.txt http://ims.net/jstack/jstack.11.txt The server appears to be idle, here. It's a little weird that thread

Re: very slow class loading on initial JSP/servlet request after restart

2009-02-20 Thread Sam Hokin
I'd like to correct an error I made in my earlier report of this problem. It turns out that the response delay in my simple test JSP IS during compilation! I ran stat on the files in question, as well as looked at the time shown on the response page (which is all the test JSP does). (I think

Re: very slow class loading on initial JSP/servlet request after restart

2009-02-20 Thread André Warnier
Sam Hokin wrote: I'd like to correct an error I made in my earlier report of this problem. It turns out that the response delay in my simple test JSP IS during compilation! Ha ! If it may help, I remember seeing an earlier thread this week, I believe answered by Rainer Jung, providing

Re: very slow class loading on initial JSP/servlet request after restart

2009-02-20 Thread Sam Hokin
Chuck's comment about JSP to Java translation done by Jasper reminded me that I should have included the time on the Java source file created during JSP compilation. It shows that the Java source file was created immediately, but accessed again six seconds later (!), presumably by the compiler.

Re: very slow class loading on initial JSP/servlet request after restart

2009-02-20 Thread Sam Hokin
An update. I've written a simple standalone Java routine that calls File.exists(). It never hangs. In fact, I ran it against the class file that Tomcat creates from a test JSP; it doesn't hang, returns false for the (long) time it takes Tomcat to create the class file on the slow system, then

Re: very slow class loading on initial JSP/servlet request after restart

2009-02-20 Thread Christopher Schultz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Sam and David, On 2/20/2009 1:36 PM, David Smith wrote: Sam Hokin wrote: It's a logical RAID array on four physical disks. I've run fsck on it (when this all first happened) and it's fine. It _could_ be a disk issue. I've seen disks that scan

Re: very slow class loading on initial JSP/servlet request after restart

2009-02-20 Thread André Warnier
Christopher Schultz wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Sam and David, On 2/20/2009 1:36 PM, David Smith wrote: Sam Hokin wrote: It's a logical RAID array on four physical disks. I've run fsck on it (when this all first happened) and it's fine. It _could_ be a disk issue.

Re: very slow class loading on initial JSP/servlet request after restart

2009-02-20 Thread André Warnier
Sam Hokin wrote: I'd like to correct an error I made in my earlier report of this problem. It turns out that the response delay in my simple test JSP IS during compilation! I ran stat on the files in question, as well as looked at the time shown on the response page (which is all the test

Re: very slow class loading on initial JSP/servlet request after restart

2009-02-20 Thread Sam Hokin
Thanks, Chris. I ran e2fsck with the -c option, which runs badblocks, when I tested it earlier. And I just ran badblocks again - 0 bad blocks found. I wish I could fix this by simply as swapping out a bad disk (notwithstanding Andre's desire for intellectual pursuits), but I really think it's

Re: very slow class loading on initial JSP/servlet request after restart

2009-02-20 Thread Sam Hokin
André Warnier wrote: Sam Hokin wrote: I'd like to correct an error I made in my earlier report of this problem. It turns out that the response delay in my simple test JSP IS during compilation! I ran stat on the files in question, as well as looked at the time shown on the response page

Re: very slow class loading on initial JSP/servlet request after restart

2009-02-20 Thread Mark Thomas
Sam Hokin wrote: Thanks, Chris. I ran e2fsck with the -c option, which runs badblocks, when I tested it earlier. And I just ran badblocks again - 0 bad blocks found. I wish I could fix this by simply as swapping out a bad disk (notwithstanding Andre's desire for intellectual pursuits), but

RE: very slow class loading on initial JSP/servlet request after restart

2009-02-20 Thread Martin Gainty
endorse content contained within this transmission. Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2009 23:50:21 + From: ma...@apache.org To: users@tomcat.apache.org Subject: Re: very slow class loading on initial JSP/servlet request after restart Sam Hokin wrote: Thanks, Chris. I ran e2fsck with the -c option

very slow class loading on initial JSP/servlet request after restart

2009-02-19 Thread Sam Hokin
I've been struggling with a very severe problem on one of my three Tomcat servers since late December. I'm completely stumped. I'm running 6.0.18 on all three servers, which are all running Fedora Core 9, all currently running Sun's JDK 1.6.0_12. The only difference is hardware. The server

Re: very slow class loading on initial JSP/servlet request after restart

2009-02-19 Thread André Warnier
Sam Hokin wrote: [...] Not being a Tomcat or Java specialist at all, but this being fairly late in the day, I am piqued by your nicely told story and just trying to imagine what could be the cause of the issue you describe. We Belgians, like Hercule Poirot, have a knack for such things.

RE: very slow class loading on initial JSP/servlet request after restart

2009-02-19 Thread Caldarale, Charles R
From: Sam Hokin [mailto:s...@ims.net] Subject: very slow class loading on initial JSP/servlet request after restart The server that's being a problem is a Dell PowerEdge 1950, quad dual core. Since I could never believe anything bad could be caused by chocolate (especially dark chocolate

Re: very slow class loading on initial JSP/servlet request after restart

2009-02-19 Thread Ron McNulty
...@ims.net To: users@tomcat.apache.org Sent: Friday, February 20, 2009 12:23 PM Subject: very slow class loading on initial JSP/servlet request after restart I've been struggling with a very severe problem on one of my three Tomcat servers since late December. I'm completely stumped. I'm running