Slow Weblogic response - JSP and Servlet Reload

The top Weblogic tuning tip I've used over the last few years is the one below. This article deals with Weblogic 8 and 9.

You know the symptoms:

JEE Application works okay on Unit Integration and Test servers.
But once you're into Performance and Stress Testing - it's totally choked up - pages are returned so slowly - Project Manager is asking for a code review to find the blockers - etc.


The first thing to do on a slow JEE application is to take a thread dump, see more on that here

Now, the thing to look for in the Thread Dump, is multiple threads doing this:


weblogic.servlet.jsp.JspStub.checkForReload(JspStub.java:144)


or this:


waiting for monitor entry [c4f7f000..c4f7fc28]
at weblogic.servlet.internal.ServletStubImpl.checkForReload(ServletStubImpl.java:771)




This is not a stuck thread within your code – but this is a weblogic.xml setting for checking each time if your servlet class or JSP has been changed.

As documented here:

http://e-docs.bea.com/wls/docs92/webapp/weblogic_xml.html#wp1038491

Sets the interval, in seconds, at which WebLogic Server checks to see if JSP files have changed and need recompiling. Dependencies are also checked and recursively reloaded if changed.

If set to 0, pages are checked on every request. If set to -1, page checking and recompiling is disabled.

Most users set this to -1 to disable in Production unless they're altering jsps on the fly (which is not normal practice on a production system).


The correct syntax for this is:

<weblogic-web-app>
<jsp-descriptor>
<jsp-param>
<param-name>pageCheckSeconds</param-name>
<param-value>-1</param-value>

</jsp-param>
</jsp-descriptor>

The similar value for servlets is set using the servlet-reload-check-secs within the tags below.

<container-descriptor>
<servlet-reload-check-secs>-1</servlet-reload-check-secs>
</container-descriptor>
</weblogic-web-app>


On non-production environments, you can set this to a reasonable value such as 600 (in seconds, which is 10 minutes) to allow for changed JSPs you drop in/FTP to the deployed environment, and want those to reflect sooner.

The other thing we must do on a production system is to precompile the JSPs as part of the build, and before deploying to Live.

Else, even the first time JSP compilation is quite slow and this must be avoided on the Production system.


For the same solution on Weblogic 10, look at an updated article.

Comments

  1. Hi Jose,
    I want to know whether in weblogic 9.2 the jsps will be precompiled by default while deploying the webapp or we need to enable it in weblogic.xml?
    Also clarify if jsps are precompiled, the very first response of the first request for a page will not be slow?

    -Thanks

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  2. Hi Sudhu,

    In WL 9.2, JSP precompile has to be enabled in your weblogic.xml
    It is not set true by default.

    If you precompile the JSPs, the first request will be faster than if you had not precompiled them.
    If your first request is still slow, it can depend on the volume of processing the JSP is doing - including any external gadgets or screens being fetched etc.

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  3. Hi Jose,
    Thanks for the info

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  5. hello Sudhu ,

    In my environment

    1.Every time manged server down ( i checkd logs it shows weblogic.kernal.defaulf.selftuning and some times BEA-000000 code will displayed in error code only)

    2.Some times Application Slow(weblogic)

    how can i resolve the issues ?what is the procedure ?
    could you please help out?

    What situations application slow?what should i check?>

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