Fw: [WDSCI-L] WAS / Webfacing performance?? -- MIDRANGE-L

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Thanks Mike and others...   
 
Lets start with asuming it is an garbage collection problem.....
How can we inflict GarbageCollection more often (so it has less to do).
 
We had already looked at other aspects like network traffic and Browser 
problems (Just because we did not want to start with pointing at the iSeries or 
WAS or Webfacing).
We could not find reasons in these for what is experienced.
 
Yes, we also where positively surprised with the performance of WAS/Webfacing 
on a rather slim box.
 
If it turns out that we need more RAM, what would be an reasonable total of RAM 
to add?
We want to be pretty sure upfront that it will bring back the problem to an 
acceptable level (5 minutes reponse time brought back to 2.5 minutes is a lot 
but is still not acceptable).
 
Kind regards,
Eduard,

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From: Mike Hockings <hockings@xxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Wednesday, February 14, 2007 1:25:28 PM
Subject: Re: [WDSCI-L] WAS / Webfacing performance??


Hi Eduard,

I can think of a couple of things that might cause those symptoms, maybe. 

First of all I wonder if the starting of a session or the displaying of a 
new (busy) page may be causing the JVM to initiate garbage collection?  I 
don't know if that would cause a slowdown or not but it might.  Possibly 
getting the GC to run more often (so it has less to do) may alleviate it 
if this turns out to be the problem?

The other thing that I could think of is that it seems sometimes IE 
doesn't seem to like to play well with WAS.  I have never been able to 
definitely track this down but by setting the IE cache settings to 
"Automatic" it seems to provide the best results.  If you have to "check 
every page" you can get occasional dismal or worse response times.

Mike

Mike Hockings, P.Eng.
WebSphere Development Tools for AS/400  -  CODE/Designer & WebFacing !
IBM Canada Ltd. Laboratory 
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Dear all,

We have Webfaced Applications running under WAS 6.0 running on a 520 
Express (1GB RAM).
On average the performance is very good (comparable with Green Screen).
Sometimes however the performance drops and it takes minutes to get a 
response.
That happens most often when initiating a session.
Less common it happens while executing the main (larger) programs (with 
lots of fields on the screen).
There seems no relation with the total of users using the system at that 
moment.
Stopping the session and initiating a new one most often give a normal 
response time. 

When it happens we do not see a lot of CPU usage.
We do see a lot of Non DB paging.

What could be the reason/cause for this?
What can be done to get rid if it/get it under control?

Kind regards,
Eduard.