You do not need to reinstall Glassfish - just remove the marker file
ejb-timer-service-app under domains/domain1/generated (or whatever
domain you use).
Do you kill Glassfish instance or do you stop it via CLI?
thanks,
-marina
forums_at_java.net wrote:
> I am running Glassfish 3.1.1 (build12) on Oracle Enterprise Linux 5.5
> and
> am having issues with the size of the ejbTimer database.
>
> I noticed that over the course of several months Glassfish is taking
> longer
> and longer to start. An inspection of server.log during the startup
> period,
> showed most of the time (around 10 minutes) was being spent opening the
> ejbTimer database and indeed the ejbTimer database folder had grown to
> several GB. This growth was in the ejbtimer/log folder specifically
> with many
> files files like log483.dat or around 1MB each.
>
> I have shutdown glassfish and connected to the database with the ij
> tool. It
> shows all the sys tables as well as a EJB__TIMER__TBL table. There are 17
> rows in this table. I would have expected this to only take up a few
> MB at
> most.
>
> A reinstall of glassfish (including a new ejbTimer database) and the
> appilcation starts in just 20 seconds or so.
>
> Can anyone tell me if there is a way to stop the JavaDB database from
> growing
> or if there is some maintenance routine that will 'shrink' the database?
> Alternatively if there was a way to drop the database completly and
> recreate
> it that wuold also be an option?
>
> I have tried to just delete the ejbTimer directory thinking that
> Glassfish
> would simply recreate it when it starts but this resulted in me havnig
> to do
> a complete reinstall of glassfish.
>
> Many Thanks,
> Steve.
>
>
>
>
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