This section discusses how to improve performance, including:
tuning for performance improvements; tips for tuning various application
types; tips for tuning the application serving environment; and tools
for tuning.
- Planning for performance
- How well a Web site performs while receiving heavy user traffic is an essential factor
in the overall success of an organization. This section provides online resources that you
can consult to ensure that your site performs well under pressure.
- Taking advantage of performance functions
- This topic highlights a few main ways you can improve performance through a combination
of product features and application development considerations.
- Obtaining performance advice from the advisors
- Tuning WebSphere Application Server is a critical part of getting the best performance from your Web site.
But tuning WebSphere Application Server involves analyzing performance data and determining the optimal server
configuration. This determination requires considerable knowledge about the various components in the
application server and their performance characteristics. The performance advisors encapsulate this
knowledge, analyze the performance data and provide configuration recommendations to improve the
application server performance. Therefore, the performance advisors provide a starting point
to the application server tuning process and help you without requiring that you become an expert.
- Tuning the application serving environment
- Start here for a summary of key performance tuning parameters. This topic describes
how to tune various aspects of the application serving environment, such as
the operating system, database connections, and application server Java virtual
machine.
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- Troubleshooting performance
- This topic illustrates that solving a performance problem is an iterative process
and shows how to troubleshoot performance problems.