To Tune the Purge Delay Settings

The purgedelay property is used to keep the session in memory in a timed-out state after the session has timed out. If the value is set to 0, then the session is removed from memory immediately. If the value is greater than zero, then the session is maintained in the memory until the purgedelay time elapses.

• In almost all deployments, purgedelay should be set to 0. The amtune tool will set the value to 0 when run.

• In special cases when the purgedelay value is greater than 0, reduce the number of active sessions (com.iplanet.am.session.maxSessions). Additionally, increase the notification threadpool size (com.iplanet.am.notification.threadpool.size)

The property com.iplanet.am.session.maxSessions describes the maximum number of active sessions that the system will allow. When the purgedelay is set to 0, the total number of sessions (active sessions and timed-out sessions) in memory will be equal to the value set for com.iplanet.am.session.maxSessions. If purgedelay is greater than 0, then the total number of sessions (active and timed-out sessions) in memory can be greater than active sessions. The difference will be based on three factors: the purgedelay time , the percentage of timed-out sessions, and the authentication rate. Therefore, when purgedelay is greater than zero, the maximum active sessions value should be reduced accordingly.

The simple way to do this is to look in the OpenSSO Enterprise session stats file. The amMasterSessionTable shows the current and peak values for maxSessions (active sessions + timed-out sessions) and maxActive (only active sessions) sessions in memory . Based on this information, the maxSessions value in the stats file limit should not exceed the 90000 limit for a JVM heap size of 3136 MB. When the purgedelay is set to 0, only one notification is sent when a session is removed from memory. When the purgedelay is greater than 0, then there will be two notifications for each timed-out session. The number of notifications for timed-out sessions are increased, and now more notification threads are needed. So the notification thread pool size should also be increased.