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Ethen,

On 7/30/15 6:52 AM, Ethen John wrote:
> I have a linux server which is running 2 similar instances of
> Tomcats 7.
> 
> Each of the tomcat instances has the exact same web application
> (.war) deployed.
> 
> The application is not actively used by the users, but the behavior
> of the application on both the tomcat instances is looking very
> sluggish.

What are you using as your performance metric?

> I checked the memory utilization of the server machine, which is
> as follows:
> 
> top - 12:47:20 up 182 days, 43 min, 1 user, load average: 0.09,
> 0.16, 0.15 Tasks: 226 total, 1 running, 225 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0
> zombie Cpu(s): 0.1%us, 0.2%sy, 0.0%ni, 99.7%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi,
> 0.0%si, 0.0%st Mem: 15529M total, 11474M used, 4054M free, 485M
> buffers Swap: 16383M total, 0M used, 16383M free, 9633M cached

So you have a system with 16GiB of RAM.

16GiB of swap seems like a lot. I think Java tries very hard not to
get swapped-out (might prohibit the OS from doing it), so you may find
that you never use all that.

The machine looks completely idle to me.

> PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 7866 root 0
> -20 43036 12m 2640 S 12 0.1 2479:02 scopeux 1 root 20 0 10548 824
> 692 S 0 0.0 1:41.80 init 2 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.16
> kthreadd 3 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 3:09.18 ksoftirqd/0 5 root 20 0
> 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 15:56.61 kworker/u:0

So... that's the useless part of the output. What about your JVM
processes?

> =========================
> 
> yyy@xxx:~> free -m total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 15529
> 11469 4059 0 485 9633 -/+ buffers/cache: 1350 14178 Swap: 16383 0
> 16383

Okay, nothing new here -- top included this already.

> ======================
> 
> yyy@xxx:~> df -kh Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on 
> /dev/mapper/vg00-rootvol 5.0G 1.4G 3.4G 29% / udev 7.6G 220K 7.6G
> 1% /dev tmpfs 24G 0 24G 0% /dev/shm /dev/sda1 510M 48M 437M 10%
> /boot /dev/mapper/vg00-homevol 992M 12M 929M 2% /home 
> /dev/mapper/vg00-tmpvol 2.0G 201M 1.7G 11% /tmp 
> /dev/mapper/vg00-varvol 7.9G 319M 7.2G 5% /var 
> /dev/mapper/vg00-crashvol 2.0G 68M 1.9G 4% /crashdump 
> /dev/mapper/vg00-auditvol 248M 11M 226M 5% /var/log/audit 
> /dev/mapper/vg00-optvol 12G 1.5G 9.8G 13% /opt 
> /dev/mapper/vg00-webdienste 99G 3.7G 95G 4% /webdienste

The disk stats don't matter much.

> Does the information above provide any pointers that can be
> addressed further.

Can you give us any information other than "I've got a server with a
bunch of RAM and my application feels slow"?

- From what you've shown us, there is no problem: the server is idle.

> The strange thing is the used memory consumption of 11474M:

Why is that strange? Memory exists to be used. Unused memory is a
waste of silicon and power.

What are the memory-related parameters for your JVMs?

> Mem: 15529M total, 11474M used, 4054M free, 485M buffers
> 
> I am also planning to have Lymbda probe installed on each of the
> tomcat instances to get more details.

Or you can just use "ps", but feel free to get heap-level information.

> Afterwords, I am also planning to restart the server machine.

That usually doesn't have a measurable effect on performance.

> The application works fine on the other earlier version (5) of
> Tomcat instance. It's just that we have now migrated the
> application to Tomcat 7 with Java 6 and experiencing this
> behavior.

Glad to see you're all up-to-date for deployment in 2011.

> The new server machine only running 2 tomcat 7 instances and
> nothing else.

It appears to be sitting idle. What's the problem?

- -chris
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