Slow Tomcat startup...

[Peter Jeremy]

On Tue, 2005-Mar-15 15:35:03 +0100, Jiri Novak wrote:
>I'm having troubles with FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE-p5 on amd64, with Apache2 
>and Tomcat 5.0.30 (jdk1.5.0) installed. The problem I'm experiencing is 
>very strange - Tomcat startup times are very very long, about 3-4 
>minutes, with three virtual hosts.

I can't offer you a solution but I can make some suggestions on where to
look:
1) What is the system doing during this 3-4 minutes?  Do "top" and
   "vmstat -v" show anything interesting?
2) Have you tried starting one instance of apache/tomcat outside a jail?

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Peter Jeremy