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In preparation for the Fall 2006 semester UW Madison was looking at ways to improve portal performance. The initial effort was focused at tuning the JVM heap for the way uPortal uses memory.
Notes & Warnings
- This configuration is meant for a multi-cpu machine. It WILL NOT perform well on a single CPU machine.
- This configuration was created specifically for the hardware and usage patterns at UW-Madison, while it may work well as is for you it is recommended that you perform your own performance testing and tweak the configuration as needed.
Preparation
Reading
Before starting to make changes to the heap config following white papers were read to understand the options available for the heap and garbage collectors.
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