Recover On Restart (Automatic Recovery)

To set the Recover on Restart attribute with the Admin Console, go to Configurations > config-name > Transaction Service. Click the Recover check box to set it to true (checked, the default) or false (un-checked).

You can also set automatic recovery with asadmin, for example:

asadmin set server1.transaction-service.automatic-recovery=false

When Recover on Restart is true, the server will always perform transaction logging, regardless of the Disable Distributed Transaction Logging attribute.

If Recover on Restart is false, then:

• If Disable Distributed Transaction Logging is false (the default), then the server will write transaction logs.

• If Disable Distributed Transaction Logging is true, then the server will not write transaction logs.

  Not writing transaction logs will give approximately twenty percent improvement in performance, but at the cost of not being able to recover from any interrupted transactions. The performance benefit applies to transaction-intensive tests. Gains in real applications may be less.