[wildfly-dev] Speeding up WildFly boot time

[David M. Lloyd]

On 05/16/2017 07:41 AM, Heiko Braun wrote:
> 
>> On 16. May 2017, at 13:32, J Pai <jai.forums2013 at gmail.com 
>> <mailto:jai.forums2013 at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>> What I have experienced is that for end users, they are mostly 
>> interested in seeing their (usually large) deployments show noticeable 
>> improvements in deployment time, not necessarily from a cold boot of 
>> the server, but when the server is already up and they either want to 
>> deploy something new or re-deploy their application.
> 
> +1 the deployments increase the time until “ready to perform work”. This 
> is the point we should use as a reference. Anything before (i.e. blank 
>   WF without deployments) is just marketing IMO.

Startup time to "ready" does include the server init; so such an effort 
isn't a total waste of time in this case.  But I agree with your main point.

But I think if we can squeeze a bit more speed out of initialization, 
there's no harm in trying for it.  The performance data that comes from 
this analysis has already been used to target areas that will improve 
performance for every part of startup, including deployment (maybe 
substantially).

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- DML