JVM Tuning for improving BPEL Performance

All application servers will be having a JVM in which they will be executing the processes. When it comes to performance tuning you need to start from the base that is the JVM. For basic JVM tuning, I am listing some important parameters that you need to set which will help your JVM to perform at its best.

• Max. heap size: Set to maximum addressable OS memory size

For 32 bit Linux the maximum heap size you can set is 4G and for a 32 bit windows the value is 2G

E.g. –Xmx 2048m

• Min. heap size: Set to the same as max heap size

E.g. –Xms 2048m

• Eden space: Set to 60% of max heap

Eden space dictates JVM garbage collection behaviors

E.g.: -Xmn1228m

For setting these values open the file opmn.xml. In Developer edition & Mid-tier installation: location of the file is $IAS_HOME/opmn/conf/opmn.xml

Add java arguments in start parameters of the server.

For eg

java … -Xms2048m -Xmx2048m -Xmn1228m -XX:+AggressiveHeap …