About This Document

 

To achieve the best performance for your WebLogic Server platform, you need to optimize the performance of the components that constitute the WebLogic Server environment. This document provides the following performance-related information:

• Tuning Hardware, Operating System, and Network Performance, discusses hardware capacity and configuration, operating system, and network performance issues.

• Tuning Java Virtual Machines (JVMs), discusses JVM tuning considerations.

• Tuning WebLogic Server, contains information on how to tune WebLogic Server to match your application needs.

• Tuning WebLogic Server Applications, discusses application tuning considerations.

• Related Reading, provides an extensive performance-related reading list.

The document also contains an index.

What You Need to Know

This document is intended for people involved with tuning the components in a WebLogic Server platform. It is assumed that readers know server administration and performance tuning fundamentals, the WebLogic Server platform, XML, and Java programming.

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Documentation Conventions

The following documentation conventions are used throughout this document.

Convention	Usage
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italics	Emphasis and book titles.
monospace text	Code samples, commands and their options, Java classes, data types, directories, and file names and their extensions. Monospace text also indicates text that you enter from the keyboard. Examples: import java.util.Enumeration; chmod u+w * config/examples/applications .java config.xml float
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UPPERCASE TEXT	Device names, environment variables, and logical operators. Examples: LPT1 BEA_HOME OR
{ }	A set of choices in a syntax line.
[ ]	Optional items in a syntax line. Example: java utils.MulticastTest -n name -a address      [-p portnumber] [-t timeout] [-s send]
|	Separates mutually exclusive choices in a syntax line. Example: java weblogic.deploy [list|deploy|undeploy|update]   password {application} {source}
...	Indicates one of the following in a command line: An argument can be repeated several times in the command line. The statement omits additional optional arguments. You can enter additional parameters, values, or other information
. . .	Indicates the omission of items from a code example or from a syntax line.