1. Copyrighted material John Tullis 10/6/2015 page 1 Performance: WebSphere Commerce John Tullis DePaul Instructor john.d.tullis@us.arthurandersen.com

2. Copyrighted material John Tullis 10/6/2015 page 2 Performance: WebSphere Commerce Problems with solution components Webservers WebSphere Commerce engine Database server.

3. Copyrighted material John Tullis 10/6/2015 page 3 Performance: WebSphere Commerce Top Webserver Performance Problems Static page caching not fully utilized Cache as many HTML and graphics files as your webserver memory will allow. Unnecessary PASS directives not removed from configuration files. Cleaning up PASS directives will minimize the execution path of the webserver for each request it sees Value of MaxActiveThreads too low Increasing the value will allow higher throughput

4. Copyrighted material John Tullis 10/6/2015 page 4 Performance: WebSphere Commerce Top Webserver Performance Problems Unnecessary access logging information being collected Collect only the webserver log information you plan to use High request graphics not cached Cache all high request graphics files Webserver access logs processed on-line All access log processing should be handled off-line, on a separate machine

5. Copyrighted material John Tullis 10/6/2015 page 5 Performance: WebSphere Commerce Top Websphere Commerce Performance Problems Too many/few server processes running If CPU and/or memory resources on the Net.Commerce server are consistently running above 80% utilization then the number of server processes can be reduced and additional servers may be required If there is excess CPU and memory capacity (less than, say 30% utilization) then the number of server processes can be increased

6. Copyrighted material John Tullis 10/6/2015 page 6 Performance: WebSphere Commerce Top Websphere Commerce Performance Problems Too many directories in the Net.Data macro and HTML path Reduce the number of directories and the search time to locate macro and include files will be reduced Dynamic HTML page caching not enabled Dynamic page caching provides large performance gains and should always be activated With dynamic page caching Net.Commerce can serve a previously created and cached product or category page from disk rather than having to build the page from scratch by running a Net.Data macro against the database

7. Copyrighted material John Tullis 10/6/2015 page 7 Performance: WebSphere Commerce Top Websphere Commerce Performance Problems Not fully utilizing the dynamic caching capabilities Generating product and category pages via ExecMacro calls rather than using the ProductDisplay and CategoryDisplay commands does not generate cacheable pages Insufficient indexes for queries being executed in Net.Data macros Create indexes for queries as necessary based on results of query optimization as described above

8. Copyrighted material John Tullis 10/6/2015 page 8 Performance: WebSphere Commerce Top DB2 Performance Problems Insufficient number of physical disks available to balance I/O There must be adequate disks available for the database and database logs to guard against bottleneck problems 4 - 6 drives per CPU for the database and 2 dedicated disks for the logs is a good starting point

9. Copyrighted material John Tullis 10/6/2015 page 9 Performance: WebSphere Commerce Top DB2 Performance Problems Inadequate bufferpool size On a database server which is running only DB2 with a single Websphere Commerce database on a single instance, 75% of the physical memory on the machine can be allocated for bufferpool Use only one large bufferpool If using one bufferpool, size it to the minimum of total database size or maximum amount of shared memory If using multiple bufferpools, ensure they are sized according to the tablespaces using them (i.e. allocate the bufferpool to be the same size as the tablespace). You can leave extra space for growth if the database is small, and if you are close to the bufferpool limits (see next bullet) make the bufferpool the same size as the tablespace

10. Copyrighted material John Tullis 10/6/2015 page 10 Performance: WebSphere Commerce Top DB2 Performance Problems Note the following limitations/notes on bufferpool size for Unix platforms  UNIX limits are on total shared segments: These include: Utility heap 20MB, dbheap 20MB each, locklist 16MB pckcache 26MB, sortheapthresh, etc. The database and database manager configuration will have to be inspected to determine these  The size of the shared memory segment size (shmmax) parameter may need to be increased if it is too low. This could be set to approx 3 to 3.5Gig just to remove any limitations on it

11. Copyrighted material John Tullis 10/6/2015 page 11 Performance: WebSphere Commerce Top DB2 Performance Problems Database logs should be located on their own physical disks Since the database is constantly writing to it’s logs, they should reside on separate physical disks than the database to reduce I/O contention Unused space in database tables not reclaimed When a row in a table is deleted the space occupied by the row is not necessarily reclaimed until the table is reorganized Key database tables should be reorganized regularly to keep the database at a minimum size to ensure optimal access plans

12. Copyrighted material John Tullis 10/6/2015 page 12 Performance: WebSphere Commerce Top Performance & Load Testing Problems Performance goals for the site not clearly stated Clear performance goals for the site were never defined or defined in such a way that measurement is impossible Lack of performance testing No performance testing methodology defined Lack of definition of testing tools used, in which environments and at what load targets Inadequate load testing performed Lack of realistic load testing target Site should be stressed to the breaking point Inadequate functional testing performed All key site functions, for both shoppers and administrators, should be thoroughly tested