Re: Help with heavily used site

2008-04-02 Thread james o
i tried to make a little cheat sheet out of the recommendations on here as i've always guessed and tweaked and guessed some more... http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Programming:WebObjects/Web_Applications/Deployment/Deployment please make any changes that i might've missed. thanks for the help!

Re: Help with heavily used site

2008-04-02 Thread Chuck Hill
I think that wikibook is, um, dead. All the new / current content is here: http://wiki.objectstyle.org/confluence/display/WO/Home Chuck On Apr 2, 2008, at 7:31 PM, james o wrote: i tried to make a little cheat sheet out of the recommendations on here as i've always guessed and tweaked and

Re: Help with heavily used site

2008-03-05 Thread Michael Kondratov
Any luck? Michael Kondratov www.aspireauctions.com On Mar 4, 2008, at 2:31 PM, Klaus Berkling wrote: I maintain two WebObjects installation in China. One of them is giving me problems - performance is slow. Our users can't get connected, yet there are many sessions and much activity in

Help with heavily used site

2008-03-04 Thread Klaus Berkling
I maintain two WebObjects installation in China. One of them is giving me problems - performance is slow. Our users can't get connected, yet there are many sessions and much activity in the logs. I have 80 instances for 2 servers, they handle 10-30 sessions each. Requests are completed

Re: Help with heavily used site

2008-03-04 Thread Michael Kondratov
I would change from Load average to Round robin load balancing. It seems to work better. Also, decrease number of instances and give each instance more memory. Maybe 50 - 100 sessions per instance. Try to configure 20 instances on one server, give each 200MB or ram. Michael Aspire Auctions

Re: Help with heavily used site

2008-03-04 Thread Mike Schrag
- Maximum Adaptor Threads is 512 Increasing this correlates to increasing incoming connections to the HTTP server. That seems waaay to high. If WO creates more than 16 or so worker threads, it will have a hard time recovering without the users getting timeout messages. Max had some

Re: Help with heavily used site

2008-03-04 Thread Chuck Hill
On Mar 4, 2008, at 1:20 PM, Mike Schrag wrote: - Maximum Adaptor Threads is 512 Increasing this correlates to increasing incoming connections to the HTTP server. That seems waaay to high. If WO creates more than 16 or so worker threads, it will have a hard time recovering without the

Re: Help with heavily used site

2008-03-04 Thread David LeBer
On 4-Mar-08, at 4:56 PM, Art Isbell wrote: On Mar 4, 2008, at 11:29 AM, Chuck Hill wrote: On Mar 4, 2008, at 1:20 PM, Mike Schrag wrote: Max had some really good info on all these values in the WO scalability session from a few WWDC's ago ... He talked about how the defaults are

Re: Help with heavily used site

2008-03-04 Thread Klaus Berkling
On Mar 4, 2008, at 11:51 AM, Michael Kondratov wrote: I would change from Load average to Round robin load balancing. It seems to work better. Also, decrease number of instances and give each instance more memory. Maybe 50 - 100 sessions per instance. Try to configure 20 instances on one

Re: Help with heavily used site

2008-03-04 Thread Chuck Hill
On Mar 4, 2008, at 9:21 PM, Klaus Berkling wrote: On Mar 4, 2008, at 11:51 AM, Michael Kondratov wrote: I would change from Load average to Round robin load balancing. It seems to work better. Also, decrease number of instances and give each instance more memory. Maybe 50 - 100 sessions

Re: Help with heavily used site

2008-03-04 Thread Klaus Berkling
On Mar 4, 2008, at 9:25 PM, Chuck Hill wrote: Ok, changed the load balancing and also lowered the instances to 36, 20 on one 14 on the other server. One server has 4GB and the other has 3GB. The ram was not set for the instances so I now set it to 195M - the math worked out better this

Re: Help with heavily used site

2008-03-04 Thread Chuck Hill
On Mar 4, 2008, at 9:30 PM, Klaus Berkling wrote: On Mar 4, 2008, at 9:25 PM, Chuck Hill wrote: Ok, changed the load balancing and also lowered the instances to 36, 20 on one 14 on the other server. One server has 4GB and the other has 3GB. The ram was not set for the instances so I