Performance Tuning: Hybris Platform

Albin Issac
www.albinsblog.com
This document explains the approach to tune the Hybris platform.

Enable JMX Remote monitoring:

Remote JMX monitoring will help us to monitor the server resources (e.g. memory usage and
CPU usage) through JMX client such as VisualVM.

Open <<HYBRIS_HOME>>/conf/local.properties and make sure the following properties are

added as part of tomcat.generaloptions .

-Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote.port=50055 -
Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote.authenticate=false -
Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote.ssl=false -
Memory usage also can be monitored from admin console

Monitoring  Memory

JVM Tuning:

The default JVM parameters are not optimal for running large applications. So the parameters
(e.g. memory and GC) should be tuned for optimal performance of the application.

Create a folder crash under <<HYBRIS_HOME>>

Open <<HYBRIS_HOME>>/conf/local.properties and replace the variable java.mem with

the java.mem=6G
Open <<HYBRIS_HOME>>/conf/local.properties replace tomcat.generaloptions with the
following data

tomcat.generaloptions=-Xmx6G -Xms6G -XX:MaxPermSize=1G -XX:NewRatio=1 -

XX:SurvivorRatio=12 -XX:+UseParallelGC -XX:+UseParallelOldGC -
XX:ParallelGCThreads=8 -XX:+HeapDumpOnOutOfMemoryError -
XX:HeapDumpPath=/app/hybris/crash/hybris_java.hprof -
Xloggc:/app/hybris/crash/hybris_gc.log -XX:+PrintGCDetails -XX:+PrintGCTimeStamps -
XX:+PrintGCDateStamps -XX:+PrintHeapAtGC -ea -
Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote.port=50055 -
Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote.authenticate=false -
Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote.ssl=false -
Dorg.tanukisoftware.wrapper.WrapperManager.mbean=true -
Djava.endorsed.dirs="%CATALINA_HOME%/lib/endorsed" -
Dcatalina.base=%CATALINA_BASE% -Dcatalina.home=%CATALINA_HOME% -
Dfile.encoding=UTF-8 -Dlog4j.configuration=log4j_init_tomcat.properties -
Djava.util.logging.config.file=jdk_logging.properties -
Djava.io.tmpdir="${HYBRIS_TEMP_DIR}" ${jvm.crashHack}

Change the XX:HeapDumpPath and –Xloggc path accordingly

 Apply the required load to the system – Apache JMeter can be used to load the request
to the system.
 Monitor the system resources like CPU, Memory and threads using VisualVM while load
is applied to the system
 Change the memory parameters and GC parameters based on the above test result.

If you provide too little memory to an application it will run out of memory. The JVM will not be
able to free up memory space at the rate that your application needs it. In this scenario JVM
will throw an OutOfMemoryError and shut down completely

The above three steps should be repeated to achieve the optimum system performance by
applying different values for the parameters.
Thread Tuning:

Modify the thread parameters based on the system performance.

Open <<HYBRIS_HOME>>/bin/platform/ project.properties and replace the following

property values.

tomcat.acceptcount=150

tomcat.maxthreads=300

Change the counts accordingly.

Open <<HYBRIS_HOME>>/ config/tomcat/conf/server.xml

And replace the below content

Old

<Connector port="${tomcat.http.port}"

maxHttpHeaderSize="8192"

maxThreads="${tomcat.maxthreads}"

protocol="org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Protocol"

executor="hybrisExecutor"

enableLookups="false"

acceptCount="100"

connectionTimeout="20000"

URIEncoding="UTF-8"

disableUploadTimeout="true" />

New

<Connector port="${tomcat.http.port}"

maxHttpHeaderSize="8192"

maxThreads="${tomcat.maxthreads}"

protocol="org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Protocol"
executor="hybrisExecutor"

enableLookups="false"

acceptCount="150"

connectionTimeout="20000"

URIEncoding="UTF-8"

disableUploadTimeout="true" />

Change the acceptCount="150" accordingly

Improve Caching:

Open <<HYBRIS_HOME>>/ bin/platform/project.properties

Replace cache.main property value with cache.main=50000

Thread Dumps:

Thread Dump is a snapshot taken at a given time which provides with a complete listing of all
created Java Threads. The thread dump can be analyzed to determine the bottleneck or
blocking threads.

Different tools can be used to analyze the thread dumps e.g. Samurai and IBM Thread and
Monitor Dump Analyzer for Java.

Thread Dump can be generated from admin console

Monitoring  Thread Dump

Click on Download button to download the current thread dump.

JDBC Logging:

Sometimes the application will be very slow due to slow running queries. Analyzing the slower
running queries using JDBC logging and create the indexes wherever required can drastically
improve performance.

Monitoring  Database  JDBC logging

Click on Start logging and click on Stop logging after particular time.

Click on Download log

Click on JDBC log analysis  Analyze to find out the details on the queries executed.