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Re: why does Glassfish V3 not respond in 90 seconds during startup

From: Byron Nevins <Byron.Nevins_at_Sun.COM>
Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2009 11:27:43 -0700

    * We currently have deadlock issues coming from Logging code. You
      should upgrade your JDK right away to > 1.6U10 The mightier your
      computer is the more likely you will see the deadlock. We are
      working on this problem RIGHT NOW.
    * 90 seconds is an arbitrary time. We had to come up with a
      one-size-fits-all number. We don't want to give a bogus message
      when a user just has a very slow computer. The timeout is only
      used in ususual cases -- like yours. When I see that happen, I
      just ^C out after a "reasonable" amount of time and run "asadmin
      uptime". You will immediately find out if the server is running.
    * There is cold startup time and warm startup time. Cold is
      currently very slow -- on my machine it is about 4X longer than
      warm startup.
    * Use "jps" (it is nestled in alongside javac, javap, etc.) instead
      of "ps"
    * Run "asadmin start-domain --verbose" and you will see all the log
      messages. Enter a ctrl-backslash and then go look at
      .../domain1/logs/jvm.log for a thread dump
    * Say you already have some process using a port that GF wants --
      the startup will fail pretty quickly and report exactly that
      problem to you.



Jonathan Benoit wrote:
i'm using Glassfish V3 nightly build (glassfish-v3-b47-04_27_2009.zip)
and i see this message trying to start Glassfish:

% ./asadmin start-domain domain1

Domain (domain1) did not respond in 90 seconds. It means it is still
coming up or it has failed to come up. Check server.log for details.

I see nothing in server.log to indicate it failed to come up, nor do i
see any confirmation that server successfully started. I checked ps
output and i do see process started:

 24195 pts/6 S 0:21 /usr/jdk/jdk1.6.0_04/bin/java -cp
/glassfishv3/glassfish/modules/glassfish.jar
-XX:+UnlockDiagnosticVMOptions -XX:MaxPermSize=192m -XX:NewRatio=2
-XX:+LogVMOutput
-XX:LogFile=/glassfishv3/glassfish/domains/domain1/logs/jvm.log -Xmx512m
-client -Djdbc.drivers=org.apache.derby.jdbc.ClientDriver
-Djavax.net.ssl.trustStore=/glassfishv3/glassfish/domains/domain1/config/cacerts.jks
-Djavax.net.ssl.keyStore=/glassfishv3/glassfish/domains/domain1/config/keystore.jks
-Djava.security.policy=/glassfishv3/glassfish/domains/domain1/config/server.policy
-Dcom.sun.enterprise.security.httpsOutboundKeyAlias=s1as
-Dcom.sun.aas.instanceRoot=/glassfishv3/glassfish/domains/domain1
-Dcom.sun.enterprise.config.config_environment_factory_class=com.sun.enterprise.config.serverbeans.AppserverConfigEnvironmentFactory
-DWSIT_HOME=/glassfishv3/glassfish
-Djava.security.auth.login.config=/glassfishv3/glassfish/domains/domain1/config/login.conf
-Djava.endorsed.dirs=/glassfishv3/glassfish/lib/endorsed
-Dcom.sun.aas.installRoot=/glassfishv3/glassfish
-Djava.ext.dirs=/usr/jdk/jdk1.6.0_04/lib/ext:/usr/jdk/jdk1.6.0_04/jre/lib/ext:/glassfishv3/glassfish/domains/domain1/lib/ext:/glassfishv3/javadb/lib
com.sun.enterprise.glassfish.bootstrap.ASMain -domainname domain1
-asadmin-args start-domain,,,domain1 -instancename server -verbose false
-debug false -asadmin-classpath ./../modules/admin-cli.jar
-asadmin-classname com.sun.enterprise.admin.cli.AsadminMain -domaindir
/glassfishv3/glassfish/domains/domain1

why do i see this message, (90 seconds seems like a long time to wait
for startup) and should I see a message in server.log confirming that
server did indeed start?

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