Has anyone seen a problem similar to the following: 

We use OpenSTA to generate varying degrees of load to test our application j2ee 
app using JBoss/Hibernate/MSSQL. 

At low levels (75 users generating approx 5000 requests/minute) the tests 
complete without issue. However, when we try and ramp up the test to more 
modest levels (150 users generating approx 10,000 requests/minute) our test 
fails.  Most (over 99%) of all the calls are completed just fine, however on 
about 25 random Servlet requests (all POSTS), the parameters are null. 

Checking our test we noted that OpenSTA sent each of the incorrect requests 
with the correct parameters.  Also, using a packet sniffer on the webserver 
machine, we verified that the webserver received all the packets containing 
these parameters.  However the application fails to properly process these 
requests since it thinks the parameters weren't submitted.  We have debug code 
in place which logs a message once a servlet begins processing the request and 
can show all the parameters it received.  For these cases, no parameters are 
there.

I'm guessing this is a load related item but being a JBoss novice I'm not sure 
where to really look. 

We thought the problem might be related to the configuration of the HTTP 
connector and have played around with the acceptCount (varied from 100 to 500) 
and bufferSize (from default 2048 to 102400) parameters, but these didn't seem 
to make much of a difference. Also, we tried setting the maxKeepAliveRequests 
to -1 with the thought this was the issue, but alas to no avail. 

The machine we are running is averaging 44% CPU utilization during the 150 user 
test and we have plenty of memory available (1.4 GB heap - avg 500 MB free 
during the test run). Also, using the same hardware we are able to test the 
previous version of our product using BEA Weblogic Server 7.0 (SP5) up to 
around 250 of these virtual users.  Based on this, we know the system should be 
able to handle more than load than it currently can. 

I'd be more than happy to deliver greater detail about specific configuration 
settings, just let me know. 

Thanks in advance for you help.


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