I just noted two great new things to help those running Java on AIX and it seems hard to avoid Java these days!  I was just monitoring a customer machine with 1500 WebSphere Application Servers (WAS) each with 100 to 150 threads so roughly 200,000 threads!!!  More impressing was that just 20 Power7 physical CPUs was supporting this workload.   So here are two things that can help: 1. Java Performance Advisor (JPA) Available for download to anyone on IBM DeveloperWorks website. This is a powerful new tool to help people identify opportunities to... [More]

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