---------------------------------------------------------------- BEFORE YOU POST, search the faq at <http://java.apache.org/faq/> WHEN YOU POST, include all relevant version numbers, log files, and configuration files. Don't make us guess your problem!!! ---------------------------------------------------------------- Freeman Pascal wrote: > > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > BEFORE YOU POST, search the faq at <http://java.apache.org/faq/> > WHEN YOU POST, include all relevant version numbers, log files, > and configuration files. Don't make us guess your problem!!! > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > > Greetings; > > We just implemented a new registration system at www.starwars.com > and we're experiencing really poor performance with our servlets and JSP > pages (which all worked fine under development and staging) and I'm > looking for some advice. I've scoured the FAQ and the web looking for > information before posting here. > > I'm running Apache 1.3.9, Apache JServ 1.1b3, JSDK 2.0, GNUJSP 1.0, > under 1.1.8 JDK from Sun on a pair of Sun E250s with 1.5Gb RAM running > Solaris 2.6. I'm running Apache and the VMs on the same servers with > traffic load balanced between the two servers using hardware load balancing. > We're connecting to SQLServer 7 through TopLink 2.0 for our database > access. > > What I'm seeing is extremely slow load times on the JSP pages and > servlets. Static content is handled very quickly. Smaller servlets load > pretty quickly, but larger seem to hang and time out. I can see nothing > in the logs that would cause concern. > > When restarting Apache (and JServ since I'm running in automatic mode) > the apps and pages run very quickly for about 3 or 4 minutes and then > bog down. I can attribute this to the large number of hit's were seeing. > > I've done everything I've seen in the FAQ that looked useful without luck. > I have disabled autoreload of files and classes. I have increased the > heap and stack sizes up to something reasonable (stack 512k-1M, heap > 32m-128m). We have soured our code for anything that would cause us > to block (such as database connections). I've even tried recompiling our > largest servlet and configured JServ for single thread mode without luck. > I have also increased the minimum number of connections that TopLink > will initially allocate and pool. The SQLServer is sitting idle and is not > the > bottle neck. > > I'm stumped - any words of wisdom out there? > > If you want to see how the site is performing take a look at: > > http://www.starwars.com > > Try becoming a member and signing in and out. > > Freeman Pascal > Internet Group > Lucasfilm, LTD > Hi Pascal, We here would be really proud to hear a positive experience feedback from you using JServ ... And of course help to solve this problem if possible. Can you tell us how many hits/sec your JServ is receiving, and the average time it takes to serve one request ? I didn't even manage to register on the site as new member. :-( Jean-Luc -- -------------------------------------------------------------- Please read the FAQ! <http://java.apache.org/faq/> To subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives and Other: <http://java.apache.org/main/mail.html> Problems?: [EMAIL PROTECTED]