You can try to collect a jstack trace to see what is the server doing
when it's hanging, it might give you some clue...
On 11/9/2012 10:26 AM, Laird Nelson wrote:
> We have a large .ear file (dozens of EJBs).
>
> Our latest development build has caused GlassFish to hang during
> asadmin deploy.
>
> Nothing shows up in the logs but GlassFish stops responding.
>
> Any tricks from the community on where to start debugging this? I
> would think (before I waste a good portion of my day wading around in
> heap dumps) that if it were a straight-up memory problem I would see
> evidence in the logs somewhere.
>
> Best,
> Laird
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