Sun Java System Application Server Platform Edition 8.1 2005Q2 Update 2 Release Notes

Performance degradation on multi-CPU machines. (ID 6194026)

The default configuration of the Application Server PE does not perform optimally on multi-CPU machines. A trade-off is made so that startup is faster, but this can negatively impact the performance of web applications.

Solution

Configure the Application Server to use the following JVM option:

-Dcom.sun.enterprise.server.ss.ASQuickStartup=false