Thanks Mark.  We actually have moved to SP3 for all of our new servers.  This
one just happens to be old enough to have been created with SP1.  We plan on
upgrading it but don't want to change too many things at once.

Martha



On Tue, 3 Sep 2013 13:23:32 -0600 Mark Post said:
>>>> On 9/3/2013 at 01:35 PM, Martha McConaghy <[email protected]> wrote:
>> We have embarked on a project to support our main student/faculty/staff
>> portal
>> on zLinux.  It works fine under a normal workload, but falls over badly when
>> under a heavy load such as during class add/drop. The portal is running open
>> source software named LifeRay on top of TomCat on SLES 11 SP1.
>
>I can't really help you with your main question on tuning, but I can tell you
>that there were significant performance improvements in SLES11 SP2 over SP1,
>and
>likely some more in SP3 over SP2.  Since SP1 has been out of support for 12
>months now, and SP2 will be out of support December 31, you really should be
>looking at SP3 for this project.
>
>
>Mark Post
>
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