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Sun Java System Portal Server 7 Deployment Planning Guide

Basic Tuning Techniques

Note –

The tuning settings discussed in this section focus on Portal Server residing on the Solaris platform. However, the principles can be applied to other generic Unix type operating systems.

Table 8–1 below lists the performance analysis tools that will help in providing feedback for tuning the Portal Server and its web container. In addition to performance issues, many of these tools can be used to detect other types of bottlenecks at the overall operating system level.

Many tool descriptions provide sample output, suggestions for interpreting output results, tips on improving output results, and links to related sites.

Table 8–1 Performance Analysis Tools

Category 

Type 

Name 

Parameters 

Usage 

Analysis Tool 

Solaris 8, Solaris 9, Solaris 10 

mpstat 

 

CPU utilization 
   

iostat 

 

Disk I/O subsystem 
   

netstat 

 

Network subsystem 
     

-I hme) 10 

Interface bandwidth 
     

-sP tcp 

TCP kernel module 
     

-a|grep hostname|wc-1 

Socket connection count 
 

Portal Server on Application Server container 

verbose:gc 

 

Garbage collection 

Tuning Parameters 

Solaris 8, Solaris 9, Solaris 10 

/etc/system

Various 

Performance 
   

/etc/rc2.d/tuning parameters file

Various 

TCP kernel tuning parameters