Athens

joining a critsit in a large bank in Athens – WebSphere Portal 5.1, WCM, TAM ,TDS, TDI, ESB, db2, etc. Massive performance issues caused by inadequately tuning the environment, lack of system resources – basically returned to default values following tuning guides. Primary intention was to stabilize environment, as well as providing mid- to long [...]

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steps to visualize HTTP server logging – part I

apache
check Apache server version by creating a simple e.g. serverinfo.php file with following statement: <?php phpinfo(); ?>
and open in your browser: http://your host/serverinfo.php. Find the version info in the Apache Version section:
Apache Version – Apache/2.0.53 (Linux/SUSE)
or run from the command line:
/usr/sbin # apache2ctl -v
Server version: Apache/2.0.53
Server built: Aug 30 2006 13:14:23
h969344:/usr/sbin #
Next add [...]

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how to enable and analyze verbose garbage collection

In Web applications, memory utilization can impact system performance significantly. One of the most common memory problems is memory leak, which causes severe performance degradation. In theory, memory leaks should not happen in Java™ because it has Garbage Collection (GC). However, GC only cleans up unused objects that are not referenced anymore. Therefore, if an [...]

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how to generate and analyze a WebSphere heapdump

./was_profile/bin/wsadmin.sh -conntype SOAP -host wcl.private.lan -port 10033 -user wasadmin -password passw0rd
WASX7209I: Connected to process “WebSphere_Portal” on node wcl using SOAP connector; the type of process is: unManagedProcess; WASX7029I: For help, enter: “$Help help”
wsadmin> set jvm [$AdminControl completeObjectName type=JVM,process=WebSphere_Portal,*]
WebSphere:name=JVM,process=WebSphere_Portal,
platform=dynamicproxy,node=wcl,j2eeType=JVM,
J2EEServer=WebSphere_Portal,version=6.0.2.17,
type=JVM,mbeanIdentifier=JVM,cell=wcl
wsadmin>$AdminControl invoke $jvm generateHeapDump
wsadmin>$AdminControl invoke $jvm dumpThreads
IBM’s support assistant (ISA) is an Eclipse based tool with quite a [...]

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