6.0 startup speed

Hi,
If I understood correctly, wl deployer is at deploy/redeploy checking db
structures for all cmp ejb, and this is (at least part of) what makes it
slow to start. If it is so (I did not investigate too much in it), it would
be nice to have a flag - check db on/off - because it doesn't make much
sense to check a whole lot of cmp beans if I redeployed ear because of jsp
change, for example (and I certainly do not want to have the server down a
minute or so on that account). If I get some sql errors later on at
invocation time because of unsynched db/cmp, it's my problem. Global flag
would be nice (in effect for hot-deploy) and maybe an override parameter for
command-line and console deployment.
Thanks,
Dejan

I had earlier talked to the BEA support regarding the same. It seems this is some issue
with CR042067. It will be fixed for 6.1. So till then we all have to wait.
Shiva.
Dejan Predovic wrote:
Well, the thing is that bea is strongly pushing "put everything in ear and forget
about classpaths", and I have no problem with that except for redeployment delay.
Having server doing 404s for a minute or so is not a problem in development, but
is a serious problem in production environment (at least for me it is).
Another problem is that in this case I'm most of the time feeling like an idiot
- system is rechecking something I know it's there, all over again, just to
check if I'm stupid enough to put something untested to production. I like to
pretend I'm an idiot (some would argue that I do not have to pretend too much,
but that's another story :)) and let machine check everything, but only in development
environment. In production, if I spend half an hour checking things before I redeploy,
I think I can be trusted enough. And even if I make an error, I do not see why
it must be reported at deploy time
Shiva Paranandi <[email protected]> wrote:
The startup speed is faster but still the initial queries are done to
check if
the tables/columns exist or not and I don't think this is avoidable.
Shiva.
Cameron Purdy wrote:
If you pre-ejbc your ejbs in 6.0, the startup speed is much fasterthan 5.1,
even with (or perhaps especially for) CMP entity beans.
Peace,
Cameron Purdy
Tangosol, Inc.
http://www.tangosol.com
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Hi,
If I understood correctly, wl deployer is at deploy/redeploy checking
db
structures for all cmp ejb, and this is (at least part of) what makesit
slow to start. If it is so (I did not investigate too much in it),it
would
be nice to have a flag - check db on/off - because it doesn't make
much
sense to check a whole lot of cmp beans if I redeployed ear becauseof jsp
change, for example (and I certainly do not want to have the serverdown a
minute or so on that account). If I get some sql errors later onat
invocation time because of unsynched db/cmp, it's my problem. Globalflag
would be nice (in effect for hot-deploy) and maybe an override parameterfor
command-line and console deployment.
Thanks,
Dejan

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NVidia MCP79 AHCI - Hitachi HTS545016B9SA02:
Capacity: 160.04 GB (160,041,885,696 bytes)
Model: Hitachi HTS545016B9SA02
Full to the brim and overflowing
Running OSX 10.8.5
I am considering purchasing this machine:
MacBook Pro, 13-inch Item Price: $1,319 (This is the education pricing for this model, plus I would buy seriously discounted AppleCare and MS Office)
Available to ship: 1-3 business days
Hardware
2.9GHz Dual-core Intel Core i7, Turbo Boost up to 3.6GHz
8GB 1600MHz DDR3 SDRAM — 2x4GB
1TB Serial ATA Drive @ 5400 rpm
SuperDrive 8x (DVD±R DL/DVD±RW/CD-RW)
Backlit Keyboard (English) & User's Guide
Accessory Kit

Whygirl,
it reads as though an internal disk upgrade (and possibly a battery replacement) would suffice for you, and those two together would be far less expensive than a new MacBook Pro. Yes, you could install either a HDD or a SSD in place of its current internal HDD. You could look at the Hitachi Travelstar 7K1000 as an example of a suitable 1 TB HDD; SSDs are more expensive per unit of storage than a HDD, but might be worth the extra cost if your apps are disk-bound. (I put a Samsung 840 PRO into my 13-inch Mid 2010 model, and it’s been working well.) Note that Chrome might be responsible for the extra heat (and the extra heat is responsible for the increased volume from the fans kicking in); Chrome isn’t optimized for use on 64-bit versions of OS X, like 10.8.5.

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