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Re: Performance Tuning - Single request brings server to its knees

From: Oleksiy Stashok <Oleksiy.Stashok_at_Sun.COM>
Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2010 18:01:57 +0100

As I understand requests hang for all users only when admins come with
updates? Otherwise do you notice any slowness, when there are just a
lot of users without admins? If you have 1 admin and 1 user, do you
still observe GF hang?

Thanks.

WBR,
Alexey.

On Feb 9, 2010, at 11:32 , glassfish_at_javadesktop.org wrote:

> First off, I'm in the deep end here. I fully acknowledge the
> noobness of this request but I've looked at a lot of tuning guides
> and have tried various settings in the admin console all to no avail
> so I would really appreciate some assistance.
>
> [b]The problem:[/b]
> We have an application deployed that runs great if you have one user
> on it problem is that we kinda want a few more then that. When the
> administrators do a bulk upload/delete which is fairly heavy in the
> number of database transactions it completely hangs for all users
> and badly. Its almost like there is only one thread and until it's
> finished nothing else can happen. I'm currently staring at two tabs
> (one admin/ one just to login) in firefox which have been spinning
> for the last 10 minutes!
>
> [b]Our Setup[b]
> Server:
> 3.2 ghz Intel XEON
> 2 processors
> 8GB RAM
> Windows 64 bit
>
> Glassfish: v2.1
> DB: MSSQL
> Other: Using Toplink and JSP
>
> [b]Question[b]
> How do I go about narrowing down what the problem is? Like I've said
> I have tried the tuning tips on several pages but they seem to have
> no effect. A lot of them refer to using the built in monitoring in
> the admin panel but I have to be honest I look at the results and
> have no idea how to work with the results.
>
> Thanks for your time. Please let me know if there is anything else
> you need.
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