After MacOS Mojave update Wildfly is very slow to start.

[jdafi]

I use Wildfly 13.0.0 but after Mojave upgrade the startup is very slow, Wildfly is the only application with this issue.

To be sure the problem isn't related to my wars I have download a new Wildfly 14 zip and started it without any deployed war or modification but also this clean "installation" is slow.

The main problem is the delay before any log printed message and between the [org.jboss.modules] and [org.jboss.msc] logs, the time between these two logs output is about 30 seconds

08:06:10,667 INFO  [org.jboss.modules] (main) JBoss Modules version 1.8.6.Final

08:06:41,052 INFO  [org.jboss.msc] (main) JBoss MSC version 1.4.3.Final

I'm unable to detect where is the problem, any idea?

What can I do to debug the problem?

Environment

*CLEAN* wildfly-14.0.1.Final installation

jdk1.8.0_152

MacOS Mojave 10.14.1 (18B75)

TIA

[lafr]

Any virus protection software active for the installation folder?

AFAIK during this time the modules are scanned and loaded. Lot's of files accessed.

[jdafi]

Hi,

no antivirus or similar sofware, before upgrading to Mojave the clean installation started in 10 seconds, now the total time to boot is about 1 minute

An old JBoss 4.2.2 starts as usual so I think Wildfly does something "different"

Does exist a way to log progress modules loading?

[spulatkan]

A colleague of mine shared this link : https://amsterdam.luminis.eu/2017/05/10/fixing-slow-startup-time-java-application-running-macos-sierra/

The fix was for High Sierra but it also worked for us (who had the same problem after Mojave update)

[jdafi]

Oh my god!!!!

After editing the /etc/hosts as mentioned on the link Wildfly starts in 5 seconds, FIVE!!!

spulatkan thank you very very much

As side effect I noticed the connection to our oracle server is now faster than ever

[spulatkan]

I had the same reaction many thanks to Jeroen Reijn's 30 minute investigation and my colleague Volkan's search

To be precise, if the link does not work in future. The solution was "... make sure that your /etc/hosts file also contains the .local domain entry for ‘localhost’ entries."

Just use the hostname command:

$ hostname

and it should return something like:

Jeroens-MacBook-Pro.local

In the end, the entries in your host file should look something like:

127.0.0.1   localhost Jeroens-MacBook-Pro.local 
::1         localhost Jeroens-MacBook-Pro.local 

reference : https://amsterdam.luminis.eu/2017/05/10/fixing-slow-startup-time-java-application-running-macos-sierra

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