Admin Console Slow to Open after Server Restart

[david_b]

Hi all,

I've noticed the admin console is very slow to open the first time after a server restart. I timed it today and it's a full 1:30 between clicking the link and the login page appearing. There is no trace in the console until ~1 min, after which the following is shown:

[org.jboss.web.tomcat.service.deployers.TomcatDeployment] deploy, ctxPath=/admin-console
[org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext] The listener "com.sun.faces.config.ConfigureListener" is already configured for this context. The duplicate definition has been ignored.
[javax.enterprise.resource.webcontainer.jsf.config] Initializing Mojarra 2.0.3 ( b05) for context '/admin-console'

Subsequent openings are almost instantaneous.

I'm running JBoss 6.0.0.Final. This happens with a default install without anything deployed. Interestingly, it's only occuring on my Win XP development box and not on our CentOS test server.

I did find this JIRA issue which seems releated, although my startup is much slower. I suspect the initial 1min delay I'm observing is caused by something else.

https://issues.jboss.org/browse/SOA-2915

Any idea why this might be happening, or a suggested fix?

Thanks

Dave

[wdfink]

Hi Dave,

do you have an agressive virus scanning?

I've seen this behaviour too much scanning is active (it is a central administration in the company).

This will have a big impact to JBoss startup, java compiling and other ...

I suppose the admin console must compile some page after restart or redeployment.

On my environment (also XP and CentOS) the factor in some cases is >5, but I did not check AdminConsole yet.

[david_b]

Good suggestion, we do run an aggressive antivirus scanner in the dev environment. I'll look into it further.

[david_b]

For anyone else reading this thread, the problem does appear to be caused by something in our corporate SOE. I haven't been able to narrow it down to the exact software unfortunately, but the admin console is much more responsive in a cleam VM.