Application server performance checklist
Use this checklist to resolve common issues of the performance of your application server service.
These possible resolutions can help you identify the source
of the performance problem that is occurring within the application
server:
- Make sure that the server where the application server is installed has the appropriate capacity to handle the load and is not shared with other systems.
- Make sure that the server has the appropriate capacity for handle the load and is not shared with other systems.
- Verify that the application server is connected to the database using a gigabit network.
- Verify that the network card is set to gigabit full duplex and not on auto-negotiate.
- Verify that the average ping time between the application server and the database is less 0.25 milliseconds.
- Check the ulimit settings to make sure that the number of open file descriptors is 8000.
- If you are a WebSphere® Application Server user, make sure that the server is configured according to the following recommendation in the WebSphere Application Server product documentation: Tuning performance.