Re: Webapp slow down after idle - 5.5.x

2010-02-23 Thread Christopher Schultz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 All, On 2/22/2010 2:14 PM, Peter Crowther wrote: On 22 February 2010 19:07, Caldarale, Charles R chuck.caldar...@unisys.com wrote: Sounds like the OS might be paging out Tomcat, and taking a long time to get all the necessary pages back in when

Re: Webapp slow down after idle - 5.5.x

2010-02-23 Thread Hassan Schroeder
On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 11:05 AM, Christopher Schultz ch...@christopherschultz.net wrote: Something like every hour or maybe every minute, you could make a request to some trivial page like /ping.jsp. Which is exactly what a service monitor like Nagios does -- plus it lets you know if the

Re: Webapp slow down after idle - 5.5.x

2010-02-23 Thread Christopher Schultz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hassan, On 2/23/2010 2:19 PM, Hassan Schroeder wrote: On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 11:05 AM, Christopher Schultz ch...@christopherschultz.net wrote: Something like every hour or maybe every minute, you could make a request to some trivial page like

Webapp slow down after idle - 5.5.x

2010-02-22 Thread klinham
Hello, My webservice (using axis 1.1)is deployed on tomcat 5.5.28. Tomcat runs on AIX and IBM Java 1.5 SR9. The problem is that every first request after a longer idle (like a day) is served very slow. There's no performance problem with next requests. It looks quite similar to first request

Re: Webapp slow down after idle - 5.5.x

2010-02-22 Thread Len Popp
One thing that comes to mind is virtual memory swapping. If Tomcat is idle for a long time, all of its memory may be swapped out to disk to make room for other programs. Then when Tomcat needs to handle a request, it must be swapped back in from disk which takes time. I've observed the

RE: Webapp slow down after idle - 5.5.x

2010-02-22 Thread Caldarale, Charles R
From: klin...@poczta.fm [mailto:klin...@poczta.fm] Subject: Webapp slow down after idle - 5.5.x The problem is that every first request after a longer idle (like a day) is served very slow. Sounds like the OS might be paging out Tomcat, and taking a long time to get all the necessary

Re: Webapp slow down after idle - 5.5.x

2010-02-22 Thread Peter Crowther
On 22 February 2010 19:07, Caldarale, Charles R chuck.caldar...@unisys.com wrote: Sounds like the OS might be paging out Tomcat, and taking a long time to get all the necessary pages back in when a request is made.  I'm not familiar with operational details of AIX, but I would suspect there