Hello David, 

Are those changes also in post-2.1.2? You mentioned some in the past.
The preload feature doesn't seem to be  there thou. Are you still
updating the post-2.1.2?

Thank you.

---Yang


-----Original Message-----
From: David Sean Taylor [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Tuesday, December 16, 2008 1:47 PM
To: Jetspeed Users List
Subject: Re: Jetspeed performance issue with portlet preferences



On Dec 16, 2008, at 8:58 AM, Dutertry, Nicolas wrote:

> Hi,
>
> We are facing a serious performance issue with Jetspeed (version  
> 2.1.3).
>
> Our web application, based on jetspeed, contains portlets using  
> portlet
> preferences. When several users connect to the application at the same
> time (60 users or more), it seems that access to portlet preferences
> highly slow down the application. We discovered that threads are  
> blocked
> on access to preferences.
> Here is a part of the stack trace where threads are blocked :
>       java.utils.prefs.AbstractPreferences.node(String)
>       
> org 
> .apache.jetspeed.components.portletentity.portletEntityImpl.getPrefer
> enceSet(Principal)
>       
> org 
> .apache.jetspeed.components.portletentity.portletEntityImpl.getPrefer
> enceSet()
>       
> org.apache.pluto.core.impl.PortletPreferencesImpl.<init>(Integer,
> PortletEntity)
>       
> org 
> .apache.pluto.factory.PortletObjectAccess.getPortletPreferences(Integ
> er, PortletEntity)
>       org.apache.pluto.core.impl.RenderRequestImpl.getPreferences()
>       com.hraccess.portlet.NewsPortlet.doView(RenderRequest,
> RenderResponse)
>       ...
>
> Do you know any workaround to solve this problem ?
>

Just to make sure, you are using the 2.1.3 final release, right?

A few things to check:

1. make sure you have applied the prefs.xml indexes described here  
(Migrating from 2.1.2 - 2.1.3):

http://portals.apache.org/jetspeed-2/guides/guide-migration.html

PREFS_NODE                              IX_PREFS_NODE_1         non
unique  PARENT_NODE_ID
PREFS_NODE                              IX_PREFS_NODE_2         non
unique  FULL_PATH
PREFS_PROPERTY_VALUE    IX_FKPPV_1              non unique      NODE_ID

Make sure you have a index on the FULL_PATH, not having that index can  
drastically degrade performance

2. There was a preference preload feature added to the 2.1.3 post  
release. Preloading will slow down startup time, but can really  
improve retrieval time at runtime
      See the prefs.xml, 2nd and 3rd constructors, you can preload  
default preferences per portlet application, and/or all entity  
preferences. Careful with this if you have lots of preferences

     <!-- Preferences Implementation -->
     <bean id="PreferencesProviderImpl"  
class 
="org.apache.jetspeed.prefs.impl.PersistenceBrokerPreferencesProvider"  
name="prefsPersistenceBroker" init-method="init">
         <constructor-arg index="0">
             <value>JETSPEED-INF/ojb/prefs_repository.xml</value>
         </constructor-arg>
         <constructor-arg index="1">
             <ref bean="preferencesCache" />
         </constructor-arg>
         <!-- list of portlet applications default preferences to  
preload, leave list empty to not preload -->
         <constructor-arg index='2'>
            <list>
                <value>j2-admin</value>
         </list>
         </constructor-arg>
         <!--  preload ALL Entities: warning this can chew up lots of  
memory -->
         <constructor-arg index='3'><value type="boolean">false</ 
value></constructor-arg>
     </bean>

Then make sure to adjust your ehcache.xml for the preferences cache:

     <cache name="preferencesCache"
            maxElementsInMemory="10000"
            maxElementsOnDisk="1000"
            eternal="false"
            overflowToDisk="false"
            timeToIdleSeconds="28800"
            timeToLiveSeconds="28800"
            memoryStoreEvictionPolicy="LFU">
    </cache>

3. Another addition to the 2.1.3 post release, the preference  
retrieval algorithm was improved, see
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/JS2-886

4. You can moving your default preferences to PSML preferences, see
http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/JS2-786
      Recommend doing this as lowest priority

NOTE:  for the 2.2 release, preferences will be stored in a different  
database format. We have dropped the Java Preferences impl in favor of  
a more performant solution



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