Hi Pam,

On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 8:31 AM, Pam Ochs <[email protected]> wrote:
> Wow, lots of great stuff here, thank you!!
> Status update - we had another bad day, and the cron job that my
> colleague set up was still capturing data, so I was able to examine
> counters during the times I knew that the application was slow.  At
> those times the java process was chewing up the CPU.  So it looks like
> the application, which isn't surprising.
> Nobody wants to invest much in making changes to the current app,
> since the replacement is due out next year, so I've been asked to do
> whatever I can with Weblogic/Solaris etc to optimize what we have.  We
> are about to move to new hardware, which will put Oracle on a
> different server, which may help.  I haven't gotten a clear answer on
> whether we will have more CPUs.
> I have Weblogic Diagnostic Framework.   Still trying to figure out
> what to do with that.
> If I can find out where the performance issues are in the app for the
> benefit of the developers working on the new version, that would be a
> bonus.
>
> -Pam
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I was about to suggest dtrace when I saw Doug's response.  Another
tool that you could use since this is a Java app is BTrace. It is a
dynamic tracing tool for Java, the project page is here:
  https://btrace.dev.java.net
It sounds like it could be helpful.  There is a good write-up of it here:
  http://blog.igorminar.com/2008/06/btrace-dtrace-for-java.html

Gary

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