Hello,

I have 2 JBoss instance in cluster, everything is perfectly running fine.

JBoss Version: 4.0.3SP1
OS: Solaris

While startup one of the instance is taking @ 4 minutes to startup and the other takes @ 1 minute.

Instance 1

2007/05/24 11:05:22 | 11:05:22,454 INFO [Server] Server Name: devl-01
2007/05/24 11:05:22 | 11:05:22,454 INFO [Server] Server Home Dir: /apps/jboss/4.0.3sp1/server/devl-01
2007/05/24 11:05:22 | 11:05:22,455 INFO [Server] Server Home URL: file:/apps/jboss/4.0.3sp1/server/devl-01/
2007/05/24 11:05:22 | 11:05:22,455 INFO [Server] Server Temp Dir: /apps/jboss/4.0.3sp1/server/devl-01/tmp
2007/05/24 11:05:22 | 11:05:22,456 INFO [Server] Root Deployment Filename: jboss-service.xml
2007/05/24 11:05:23 | 11:05:23,096 INFO [ServerInfo] Java version: 1.5.0_01,Sun Microsystems Inc.
2007/05/24 11:05:23 | 11:05:23,096 INFO [ServerInfo] Java VM: Java HotSpot(TM) Server VM 1.5.0_01-b08,Sun Microsystems Inc.
2007/05/24 11:05:23 | 11:05:23,097 INFO [ServerInfo] OS-System: SunOS 5.10,sparc
Received a packet PING : ping
 Send a packet PING : ok
 Received a packet PING : ping
 Send a packet PING : ok
 ...
 ...
 ...
 ...for almost 3 minutes..
 ..
 Received a packet PING : ping
 Send a packet PING : ok

2007/05/24 11:08:44 | 11:08:44,391 INFO [Server] Core system initialized

Instance 2:

2007/05/24 11:14:50 | 11:14:50,385 INFO [Server] Server Name: devl-02
2007/05/24 11:14:50 | 11:14:50,386 INFO [Server] Server Home Dir: /apps/jboss/4.0.3sp1/server/devl-02
2007/05/24 11:14:50 | 11:14:50,387 INFO [Server] Server Home URL: file:/apps/jboss/4.0.3sp1/server/devl-02/
2007/05/24 11:14:50 | 11:14:50,388 INFO [Server] Server Temp Dir: /apps/jboss/4.0.3sp1/server/devl-02/tmp
2007/05/24 11:14:50 | 11:14:50,390 INFO [Server] Root Deployment Filename: jboss-service.xml
2007/05/24 11:14:51 | 11:14:51,761 INFO [ServerInfo] Java version: 1.5.0_06,Sun Microsystems Inc.
2007/05/24 11:14:51 | 11:14:51,762 INFO [ServerInfo] Java VM: Java HotSpot(TM) Server VM 1.5.0_06-b05,Sun Microsystems Inc.
2007/05/24 11:14:51 | 11:14:51,763 INFO [ServerInfo] OS-System: SunOS 5.10,sparc
2007/05/24 11:14:53 | 11:14:53,640 INFO [Server] Core system initialized

How can I reduce the startup time required for the first instance?

During this 3 minutes the server is doing a ping..

Any suggestions?