Alleviate Thread Blocking

[Guest]

I am running an order entry web application w/about 80 users. The problem is that the app server we are using (Tango) does thread blocking from time to time. And this greatly slows performance. Does anyone know ideal ways to alleviate this? For example:

1) Faster CPU clockspeed
2) CPU with bigger cache
3) More CPUs w/either 1) or 2)

I'm running on an NT 4.0 box w/dual 500 Mhz P3 processors. Thanks for any help!
Cory

 

[kurokaze]

hmm.. wrong forum but anyway.

I guessing somewhere mutexes are being set
that is causing this (probably due to your
threads being serialized to access your
database - if you have a database that is).
I suggest track down the problem first.. do
you have enough connections available to the
data store? (i.e. database) how much I/O wait
are you experiencing on the server end?
Page scans? Swap time?
All those would be clues as to what is going on.

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