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Re: v3 not deploying huge EAR anymore

From: Judy Tang <Judy.J.Tang_at_Sun.COM>
Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2009 07:39:21 -0700

Thanks Matthias for trying this big app which is a good test case. Your
problem is with good hands. Thanks Hong and Tim for fast help !

Judy

Tim Quinn wrote:
> Hi, Matthias.
>
> Does this happen to be on a Windows system?
>
> If so, we've seen cases in the past in which operations in the
> temporary directory - such as creating new files there - can take a
> very long time if the temporary directory itself has many entries in it.
>
> You can also specify --upload=false on the deploy command if you are
> executing the deploy command on the same system where the server runs
> to skip the upload step entirely.
>
> In addition to the patch, it might be helpful for you to use jstack to
> capture the current stack of the server process when it seems stuck.
>
> - Tim
>
> matthias.fraass_at_tricoder.net wrote:
>> Hi Hong,
>>
>> thanks for the quick response - unfortunately I cannot share that
>> application with you :).
>>
>> Please send the patch - even with
>> javax.enterprise.system.tools.deployment.level=DEBUG
>> the only thing I can see is "Created temporary upload folder ...."
>> and that's it.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Matthias
>>
>>
>> 2009/10/29 Hong Zhang <Hong.Zhang_at_sun.com <mailto:Hong.Zhang_at_sun.com>>
>>
>> Hi, Matthias
>> Sorry to hear that the huge EAR is causing problem for you in
>> v3. It's probably not easy to share your application for us to
>> reproduce from our end. I can send you a patch (with some
>> additional log messages to find out the time spent in each part
>> of the deployment). You can apply the patch (update some jar with
>> the patch in your glassfish installation) and try to deploy the
>> application again and then send me the server.log. This will help
>> us narrow down where the problem is and then ask the
>> corresponding engineer to take a look. Will this work for you?
>> Thanks,
>> - Hong
>>
>>
>> I'm perplexed:
>> An EAR that deploys fine under GF v2 doesn't deploy at all
>> under v3 (b70). It sits there consuming CPU time and timeouts
>> after 10 minutes:
>>
>> >asadmin deploy whow-thats-a-huge.ear
>> I/O Error: Read timed out
>> Command deploy failed.
>>
>> I have set javax.enterprise.system.tools.deployment=FINE but
>> get no server.log entries, nothing.
>> It seems that the deployment is still going on after the
>> timeout, though. But I didn't have the patience to wait for
>> more than 20minutes after that.
>>
>> Originally it was a 100+MB EAR containing, amongst other
>> JARs, an ejb-jar with 45.000+ classes.
>>
>> Please don't ask if the design is alright :). We have plans
>> to do refatoring but we have to do things one by one.
>> - It's my task to migrate that behemoth from Weblogic to
>> Glassfish.
>> - It's deploying fine under a stock GF v2.1, so it should
>> work under v3 or at least give some hints what went wrong
>>
>> I've stripped down the EAR so that it only contains the
>> ejb-jar with a minmal ejb-jar.xml (stripped from 5MB to only
>> 1 SessionBean) - that's still 60MB.
>> Still, it won't deploy unless I remove most of the classes
>> from that ejb-jar, leaving only about 1000 classes. And for
>> every 10 classes I add, the deployment takes 15s longer!
>>
>> Again: v2 chews on this without a grumble and deploys it
>> within 2-3 minutes!
>>
>> -> As I've heard that v3 contains major rewrites - is there
>> something wrong with the scan processes during deployment?
>>
>> Sorry for these unclear statements, but this is a showstopper :/.
>>
>> I appreciate any ideas on this very much.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Matthias
>>
>> --
>> http://twitter.com/MatthiasFraass
>>
>>
>>
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