On 05/09/2017 21:11, Meta Schemer wrote: > We're using Apache Tomcat/7.0.64 and have recently switched to using a > cloud-based file system for our static assets (which consists of millions > of files). The problem we now face is that the startup time for our app has > now gone through the roof (many hours). File system snooping has revealed > that Tomcat seems to be scanning the entire static assets directory at > startup (which is exponentially slower on the cloud based file-system.) > > A work around that we have found is that we mount the static assets only > after the server has started up. While this works for the moment, it is not > an appropriate long-term solution for us. > > For now, this does not seem to stem from jar-scanning (i.e., turning off > jar-scanning did not change this behavior.) > > So, the question is: is there a way to turn off this startup static > file-scanning behavior?
Take a thread dump and figure out what is doing the scanning. Then you stand a good chance of being able to disable it. Mark --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org
