[cosmo-dev] Performance?

[Randy Letness]

Alan Lord wrote:
> Hi all and a Happy New Year,
>
> As some of you know by now, I'm running a home built SVN (rev 6439) of 
> Cosmo on my own Tomcat installation.
>
> Cosmo works nicely most of the time, but after a "bit" of activity it 
> seems to really load my server and almost grind to a halt.
>
> TOP (I'm running Tomcat on Linux) reports around 99.5% CPU 
> utilisation, sometimes I get the "Java Out of Memory" error but not 
> always...
>
> The platform is a VIA CN700 Processor @ 1.2Ghz with 1 Gig of RAM. I 
> allow Java to have up to 900Mb in the startup script with:
>
> JAVA_OPTS="${JAVA_OPTS} -Xms900m -Xmx900m -XX:PermSize=128m 
> -XX:MaxPermSize=512m
>
> although in "top" I never see more than about 350M taken by it.

Are you running a single tomcat process or multiple?  What else is 
running on the system?  Are you running the default Derby database or 
are you using MySQL?   This may be a typo, but your JAVA_OPTS line is 
missing a double quote and should be:

JAVA_OPTS="${JAVA_OPTS} "-Xms900m -Xmx900m -XX:PermSize=128m 
-XX:MaxPermSize=512m

I usually run cosmo with a max heap size of 512M and never get 
out-of-memory errors even when hitting the server with 10+ users.


>
> I also have a CRM application running in tomcat from what was centric 
> but is now called ConcourseSuite by Concursive Corporation. That seems 
> to be quite happy all of the time.
>

Do you know how much memory this application is using?

> Real useage is pretty low - only two/three users max, a few calendar 
> collections and Cosmo is being accessed by Lightning, Cosmo's Web UI 
> and sometimes the Chandler Desktop.
>

How big are the collections?

> I realise the code is still not finished, as it were, but is there 
> anything I can do to help track down the problem?
>

Can you run just the cosmo war and see what happens?  It seems like the 
system is thrashing, which points to not enough memory.


-Randy