WildFly 9 on AIX issues

[saber4mohamed]

Hello everyone,

Long story short, we have a JSF 2.2 application that we usually deploy on WildFly 8 and 9 servers and in the past Jboss 4.2. We use CentOs or REDHAT servers usually and everything is very fine.

We are upgrading all our customers installation with Jboss 4.2 to WildFly. But for one customer, they have AIX instead of CentOs or RedHat and we seem to have issues with it.

First of all we were unable to start wildfly 8.2.0 after installing it and we thought it's JDK related as they have IBM JDK 1.7, but we were able to install and run WildFly 9.0.1 without any issue.

The deployment goes fine without warnings nor errors. But the app won't load completely at Browser side, as I went digging into Chrome Developer Tools, I was able to see that content is served well ( html content, images, css, js .. ) but the app won't render, sometimes it does render on some machine and sometimes it doesn't.

The issue is weird that we aren't able to understand to explain, I hope someone can come up with an idea.

Thanks, if more details needed I'd be glad.

[ctomc]

Exact version of AIX?

What exact version of JDK?

[saber4mohamed]

Thanks for replying.

AIX version :

6100-05-01-1016

6.1.0.0

java version "1.7.0"

Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build pap6470-20110827_01)

IBM J9 VM (build 2.6, JRE 1.7.0 AIX ppc64-64 20110810_88604 (JIT enabled, AOT enabled)

J9VM - R26_Java726_GA_20110810_1208_B88592

JIT  - r11_20110810_20466

GC   - R26_Java726_GA_20110810_1208_B88592

J9CL - 20110810_88604)

JCL - 20110809_01 based on Oracle 7b147

[jamezp]

I was able to start WildFly 8.2.0.Final on a J9 JVM on Linux. I wasn't not able to deploy the example kitchensink on WildFly 8.2.0.Final though, but it worked fine on WildFly 9.0.2.Final.

One thing to note the J9 JVM has some fairly aggressive garbage collection. You might want to have a look at the GC settings.

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James R. Perkins