I have application, deployed in wildfly. And sometimes in application occurs db connection leaks. I really cannot find them in debugger. But they are shown in WildFly Management Console in datasource statistics page, InUseCount sometimes incremented.
So, questions:
It is possible to create handler that firing when connection created and closed? To find globally who does not close connection.
Is there connections leaks troubleshooting approach, more effective than simple debugging?
I found this article:
http://www.mastertheboss.com/jbossas/wildfly9/detecting-connection-leaks-in-wildfly-9
But it is not accurate for modern versions of WildFly (for example 19 and higher). Problem in that in modern versions WildFly when starts not use parameter ironjacamar.mcp. Instead of this parameter mcp option of datasource must be used.
Docs about datasource options:
https://docs.wildfly.org/19.1/wildscribe/subsystem/datasources/xa-data-source/index.html
After adding mcp option when flushing datasources, file leaks.txt appears.
During Stress/Load test and after sending so many queries using JMeter to my JBoss server, the server becomes irresponsive / unreachable. I want to know if there is any mechanism that makes JBoss unstable.
This might be an issue with the threads, there might be some thread blocking or taking longer. On this case, you will need to get a thread dump, and verify where it's stuck/unresponsive. From the description it might a thread on JMeter that is using the resources and destabilizing JBoss. A server log could also show some issue as well.
Recommendations
Get the thread dumps on the moment it happens
Analyze it with fastthread.io or other thread analyzer, e.g. TDA.
Verify any issue on the server.log
Observation
For opening issues with JBoss 5/6/7 please update the logs and configuration files, this will make the debug easier.
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I have a Wildfly 10 instance which defines a queue, publishes to that queue as well as receives from that queue via an MDB.
That has been have accomplished.
Now I want to add a second Wildfly 10 instance, running on another machine, which will also receive messages from that same (remote) queue defined in the first instance.
I've spent 2 days looking for a current example of how to do this.
There are tons of questions, and some outdated answers.
It seems like the one of the most trivial things to expect from a Q implementation, yet i cannot find any example.
Would someone please refer me to a good and current example (Wildlfy 10) of what needs to be done as far as annotation of the MDB, configuration of the standalone-full.xml, and and security requirements?
I looked into a similar scenario and I had as well trouble to find good documentation.
There are several ways to connect JMS-Queues together:
JMS core bridges
JMS bridges
Connections to a remote server (using a remote connector or properties directly in your MDB).
JMS-Clustering
… ?
I created a demo project at Github which uses "JMS-Bridges" to forward messages to another server. The project also uses remote connections to listen to messages of a remote server. The readme explains step by step how I would configure "Wildfly 10" servers that they use the same destination for JMS messages.
The best source of information concerning this topic seems to be the Messaging documentation of the Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.0 which is as well valid for Wildfly 10.
Any good suggestion for Monitoring JBOSS 7 in Production ? I would also like to configure alerts based on certain condition. Of course , It has to be Open source.
Thanks.
You can use standard JConsole that comes with JBoss dependencies added. It's used to monitor your servers state and mbeans, it's very useful.
To test it on localhost start your server and then run the JConsole from your server/bin directory and select JBoss in the Local process selection.
To use it on "remote" server, start your server on "REMOTE_HOST" and then run JConsole from an JBoss/bin directory and connect with the followin string
service:jmx:jmx-remoting://REMOTE_HOST_NAME:9999 (or the port you use) and enter the username and password.
Secondly, for more detailed info of objects creation, memory leaks, CPU% (profiling) there is another one as:
http://jbossprofiler.jboss.org/
You can try to use free open source APM like scouter.
It shows very useful realtime performance information of every request.
And also you can set a threshold of resources and can make plugin for alerting to external.
https://github.com/scouter-project/scouter
JBoss7 need to set module option.
-Djboss.modules.system.pkgs=~~~,scouter
We upgraded from JBoss 4 (and JDK 5) to JBoss 5 (and JDK 6). The problem is that the start time has gone from 1.5 minutes (on JBoss 4) to more than 4 minutes.
18:53:35,444 INFO [ServerImpl] JBoss (Microcontainer) [5.1.0.GA (build: SVNTag=JBoss_5_1_0_GA date=200905221053)] Started in 3m:9s:262ms
It seems like the component that is taking JBoss the longest time to initialize is the JMX
18:50:41,926 INFO [LogNotificationListener] Adding notification listener for logging mbean "jboss.system:service=Logging,type=Log4jService" to server org.jboss.mx.server.MBeanServerImpl#1adc122[ defaultDomain='jboss' ]
18:52:38,797 INFO [JMXConnectorServerService] JMX Connector server: service:jmx:rmi://lharel2/jndi/rmi://lharel2:1090/jmxconnector
From the DEBUG server log, I get these lines at the problematic time:
2009-12-18 18:51:00,886 DEBUG [org.jboss.deployment.MappedReferenceMetaDataResolverDeployer] (main) vfsfile:/C:/QC/Views/QCDev/jboss-5.1.0.GA/server/default/deploy/jmx-console.war/ endpoint mappings:
2009-12-18 18:51:00,886 DEBUG [org.jboss.deployment.MappedReferenceMetaDataResolverDeployer] (main) Processing unit=jmx-console.war, structure: jmx-console.war
2009-12-18 18:52:35,209 DEBUG [org.jboss.deployment.OptAnnotationMetaDataDeployer] (main) Deployment is metadata-complete, skipping annotation processing, ejbJarMetaData=null, jbossWebMetaData=org.jboss.metadata.web.spec.Web23MetaData#1f, jbossClientMetaData=null, metaDataCompleteIsDefault=false
There is no EJB in the project.
The memory settings are:
-Xms128m -Xmx512m -XX:MaxPermSize=256m
Do you have any idea how JBoss start time can be improved?
Update: so far no luck, I tried shreeni's suggestion (changed the scanning xmls). The server is not running in debug mode so MicSim's suggestion is not relevant
A shot into the blue sky without more information
Network timeouts: 1,5 minutes of delay when deploying jmx-console.war may indicate a network timeout (e.g. 3 x 30 seconds). Try to start JBoss and bind it to a specific IP address using the -b command line argument or the jboss.bind.address system property. Also, try to make sure your host and DNS resolution settings on your system are correct.
JMX is also using RMI and you may want to set the RMI server host name as system property. On some Linux distributions, RMI has problems with looking up the correct hostname and jmx-console.war may try to connect to the 'wrong localhost'. The system property is java.rmi.server.hostname
System tracing: If that does not help, you may want to use strace to start the java process, so you can see the point where the system hangs (if it really does hang due to a network timeout or similar).
That is an awfully big gap in the logs. I suggest changing the log configuration to log everything at DEBUG level, rather than INFO. This will generate an awful lot more log entries, but hopefully will help you narrow it down.
The easiest way to do this is to set the -Djboss.server.log.threshold=DEBUG system property when you start JBoss
I had an issue like this but I found a good improvement by setting the initial and max heap size to same values, I mean:
-Xms512m -Xmx512m
With this, I improved from 4 to 2 minutes the starting time.
Your suspicion about the jmx-console can be misleading. There may be other components doing work in the background unrelated to the jmx-console. In my experience, we had an issue where a small war file appeared to take 3 minutes to load! It was innocent. The culprit was partly due to an EAR file with many wars and jars.
While I'm no expert, I would suggest the following:
Try turning up the logging to TRACE. By doing this, I witnessed one of the deployers (EJBDeployer, I think) unnecessarily scanning WARs in one of our EARs. I then manually disabled the scanning of those WAR files.
Run wireshark during the startup. I discovered some war files were hanging while waiting for a response from an external DTD request. Those websites were either now non-existent or would not properly serve the DTD files to java-based programs. I could speed it up by either having the programmers use local DTD files or mirroring those DTDs locally and having /etc/host loopback locally.
You could refer to this link to avoid unnecessary annotation scanning which could speedup your server start
See http://community.jboss.org/wiki/jboss5xtuningslimming especially the "Tuning" part.
I'm using JBoss 5.1.0 with a Macbook pro (2.26ghz 4gb) without applications it start in 54s
15:00:26,449 INFO [ServerImpl] JBoss (Microcontainer) [5.1.0.GA (build: SVNTag=JBoss_5_1_0_GA date=200905221634)] Started in 54s:720ms
I made a new configuration based on the "default". The JMS dataosurce points to a Postgres database instead of the "Hypersonic Database" (in memory database)
I suppose you are starting in debug mode. This mode can be up to 3 times slower than normal mode.
But there might be also a problem when switching from JDK5 to JDK6. I found this solution here on the net:
I've solved that. It's a debugging issue. I've changed my debug settings from:
wrapper.java.additional.26=-Xdebug
wrapper.java.additional.27=-Xnoagent
wrapper.java.additional.28=-Djava.compiler=NONE
wrapper.java.additional.27=-Xrunjdwp:transport=dt_socket,address=7199,server=y,suspend=n
to:
wrapper.java.additional.26=-Xdebug
wrapper.java.additional.27=-Xrunjdwp:transport=dt_socket,address=7199,server=y,suspend=n
and JBoss becomes fast again.
Hope this helps.
Do you need the JMX console application? Pragmatic thing would be to un-deploy it from the server, you could still use the jconsole or jvisualvm for basically the same thing.
Turn off annotation scanning and other features you don't need https://community.jboss.org/wiki/jboss5xtuningslimming
When you start/stop JBoss from eclipse, it does not clean up the tmp & work folders correctly. Setup an External Tool configuration and run a batch file to delete everything in tmp & work folders before each startup.
I was able to speedup running the "default" profile from 15/20 minutes to 5 minutes.