WebSphere Portal Performance Monitoring and Tuning

WebSphere Portal Tuning Information

• IBM WebSphere Portal Version 6.0 Tuning Guide

Information

• WebSphere Application Server Performance Web site
• WebSphere Application Server - Performance Tuning: Adjusting WebSphere Application Server System Queues
• WAS 6 Performance Monitoring and Tuning Guide
  • WAS 6 Tuning Parameter Hot List

Performance Considerations For Custom Portal Code
WebSphere Journal - This is the second part of a two-part article. The first part appeared in the September 2005 issue of WebSphere Journal.

Performance considerations for custom portal code
IBM WebSphere Developer Technical Journal - Performance is often a trade-off between functionality, maintainability, program execution time, and memory consumption. This document offers programming advice for maximizing the performance of portal application components, such as portlets, themes, and skins, with IBM WebSphere Portal.

Tools

HeapAnalyzer
A graphical tool for discovering possible Java heap leaks available from IBM alphaWorks. HeapAnalyzer analyzes Java heap dumps by parsing the Java heap dump, creating directional graphs, transforming them into directional trees, and executing the heuristic search engine.

Performance Inspector for Microsoft Windows
A set of performance analysis tools for Microsoft Windows available from IBM alphaWorks.

Visual Performance Analyzer
An Eclipse-based visual performance toolkit available from IBM alphaWorks.

IBM Thread and Monitor Dump Analyzer for Java Technology
A tool that allows identification of hangs, deadlocks, resource contention, and bottlenecks in Java threads available from IBM alphaWorks.

IBM Page Detailer
A graphical tool that enables Web content providers to rapidly and accurately measure client side performance of Web pages available from IBM alphaWorks.