Predicting CQ5 Performance

    Monday, October 18, 2010

    Day’s CQ5.3 has been out for about 9 months and recently Day released a performance pack that rolls up 60 previously released patches having to do with performance. Memory leaks, thread deadlocks and fixes like “do not auto-expand tree nodes” comprise the bulk of the improvements. How can one know if these improvements — or any other performance tuning changes — will have a significant effect on users’ experience?  One needs a meter. Day recommends a number of tools to assist in this,  documenting in some detail how to use JConsole and VisualVM.  JMeter is also mentioned but not expanded upon. Here I’ll provide some details as to how it can be setup and used for a “real life” load test and stress testing.

    posted by Mike Motherway
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