We upgraded from JBoss 4 (and JDK 5) to JBoss 5 (and JDK 6). The problem is that the start time has gone from 1.5 minutes (on JBoss 4) to more than 4 minutes.
18:53:35,444 INFO [ServerImpl] JBoss (Microcontainer) [5.1.0.GA (build: SVNTag=JBoss_5_1_0_GA date=200905221053)] Started in 3m:9s:262ms
It seems like the component that is taking JBoss the longest time to initialize is the JMX
18:50:41,926 INFO [LogNotificationListener] Adding notification listener for logging mbean "jboss.system:service=Logging,type=Log4jService" to server org.jboss.mx.server.MBeanServerImpl@1adc122[ defaultDomain='jboss' ]
18:52:38,797 INFO [JMXConnectorServerService] JMX Connector server: service:jmx:rmi://lharel2/jndi/rmi://lharel2:1090/jmxconnector
From the DEBUG server log, I get these lines at the problematic time:
2009-12-18 18:51:00,886 DEBUG [org.jboss.deployment.MappedReferenceMetaDataResolverDeployer] (main) vfsfile:/C:/QC/Views/QCDev/jboss-5.1.0.GA/server/default/deploy/jmx-console.war/ endpoint mappings:
2009-12-18 18:51:00,886 DEBUG [org.jboss.deployment.MappedReferenceMetaDataResolverDeployer] (main) Processing unit=jmx-console.war, structure: jmx-console.war
2009-12-18 18:52:35,209 DEBUG [org.jboss.deployment.OptAnnotationMetaDataDeployer] (main) Deployment is metadata-complete, skipping annotation processing, ejbJarMetaData=null, jbossWebMetaData=org.jboss.metadata.web.spec.Web23MetaData@1f, jbossClientMetaData=null, metaDataCompleteIsDefault=false
There is no EJB in the project.
The memory settings are:
-Xms128m -Xmx512m -XX:MaxPermSize=256m
Do you have any idea how JBoss start time can be improved?
Update: so far no luck, I tried shreeni's suggestion (changed the scanning xmls). The server is not running in debug mode so MicSim's suggestion is not relevant
Source: Tips4all
A shot into the blue sky without more information
ReplyDeleteNetwork timeouts: 1,5 minutes of delay when deploying jmx-console.war may indicate a network timeout (e.g. 3 x 30 seconds). Try to start JBoss and bind it to a specific IP address using the -b command line argument or the jboss.bind.address system property. Also, try to make sure your host and DNS resolution settings on your system are correct.
JMX is also using RMI and you may want to set the RMI server host name as system property. On some Linux distributions, RMI has problems with looking up the correct hostname and jmx-console.war may try to connect to the 'wrong localhost'. The system property is java.rmi.server.hostname
System tracing: If that does not help, you may want to use strace to start the java process, so you can see the point where the system hangs (if it really does hang due to a network timeout or similar).
That is an awfully big gap in the logs. I suggest changing the log configuration to log everything at DEBUG level, rather than INFO. This will generate an awful lot more log entries, but hopefully will help you narrow it down.
ReplyDeleteThe easiest way to do this is to set the -Djboss.server.log.threshold=DEBUG system property when you start JBoss
Your suspicion about the jmx-console can be misleading. There may be other components doing work in the background unrelated to the jmx-console. In my experience, we had an issue where a small war file appeared to take 3 minutes to load! It was innocent. The culprit was partly due to an EAR file with many wars and jars.
ReplyDeleteWhile I'm no expert, I would suggest the following:
1) Try turning up the logging to TRACE. By doing this, I witnessed one of the deployers (EJBDeployer, I think) unnecessarily scanning WARs in one of our EARs. I then manually disabled the scanning of those WAR files.
2) Run wireshark during the startup. I discovered some war files were hanging while waiting for a response from an external DTD request. Those websites were either now non-existent or would not properly serve the DTD files to java-based programs. I could speed it up by either having the programmers use local DTD files or mirroring those DTDs locally and having /etc/host loopback locally.
I had an issue like this but I found a good improvement by setting the initial and max heap size to same values, I mean:
ReplyDelete-Xms512m -Xmx512m
With this, I improved from 4 to 2 minutes the starting time.
You could refer to this link to avoid unnecessary annotation scanning which could speedup your server start
ReplyDeleteI suppose you are starting in debug mode. This mode can be up to 3 times slower than normal mode.
ReplyDeleteBut there might be also a problem when switching from JDK5 to JDK6. I found this solution here on the net:
I've solved that. It's a debugging issue. I've changed my debug settings from:
wrapper.java.additional.26=-Xdebug
wrapper.java.additional.27=-Xnoagent
wrapper.java.additional.28=-Djava.compiler=NONE
wrapper.java.additional.27=-Xrunjdwp:transport=dt_socket,address=7199,server=y,suspend=n
to:
wrapper.java.additional.26=-Xdebug
wrapper.java.additional.27=-Xrunjdwp:transport=dt_socket,address=7199,server=y,suspend=n
and JBoss becomes fast again.
Hope this helps.
Do you need the JMX console application? Pragmatic thing would be to un-deploy it from the server, you could still use the jconsole or jvisualvm for basically the same thing.
ReplyDeleteSee http://community.jboss.org/wiki/jboss5xtuningslimming especially the "Tuning" part.
ReplyDeleteI'm using JBoss 5.1.0 with a Macbook pro (2.26ghz 4gb) without applications it start in 54s
ReplyDelete15:00:26,449 INFO [ServerImpl] JBoss (Microcontainer) [5.1.0.GA (build: SVNTag=JBoss_5_1_0_GA date=200905221634)] Started in 54s:720ms
I made a new configuration based on the "default". The JMS dataosurce points to a Postgres database instead of the "Hypersonic Database" (in memory database)