[NTLUG:Discuss] ot- first user take long time to complete load web page.

[Stephen Davidson]

m m wrote:
> Hi All:
> 
> sorry for the off topic.
> 
> We have a application written by java. use Jrun as the servlet engine.
> There is some thing weird:
> every day in the morning, when the first user try to login, it take a 
> long time (1 - 3 minutes) to complete his/her portal page.
> and since them, the 2nd, 3rd... user will be able to logon complete very 
> quick.
> it seems that the initial container/settings will be distory for a long 
> idle, and since then, who ever tries to logon, the servlet engine need 
> to rebuild it and why it take long for the first user? if it is true, is 
> there any way set/keep initial setting forever?
> 
> Also, is it jrun configuration issue?
> 
> thanks.
> 

Greetings.

The symptoms sound like the generated class files for the JSPs are being
purged.  Often (as in iPlanet, Orion/Oracle 9iAS & especially
JBoss/Tomcat/Jetty), the JSPs are compiled into the tmp directory.  Is it
possible they are being purged over the weekend by a cron job?

Regards,
Steve

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