Tuning parameters for your WebSphere Application Server environment

Each application server instance has several parameters that can influence application performance. Use the WebSphere Application Server administrative console to configure and tune applications, Web containers, EJB containers, application servers, and nodes in the administrative domain. You can also configure settings for other components of your iSeries environment to optimize performance.

If you experience problems with performance, it is recommended that you review the Primary tuning parameters before you review this index.

WebSphere Application Server tuning parameters

Each application server instance has several parameters that can influence application performance. Use the WebSphere Application Server administrative console to configure and tune applications, Web containers, EJB containers, application servers, and nodes in the administrative domain. You can also configure settings for other components of your iSeries environment to optimize performance. These topics describe tuning parameters that are specific to WebSphere Application Server and application server instances.

Application server tuning parameters
You can tune parameters for several application server components, such as the Web container and the Object Request Broker. This topic provides information about tuning these parameters.

Java Messaging Service tuning parameters
This topic describes how you can optimize JMS performance.

Queuing network
This topic describes how to tune the components of the queueing network to optimize performance.

Web server plug-in tuning tips
Application server instances use plug-ins to communicate with Web servers. This topic provides tips to help you optimize the performance of the Web server plug-in.

Web services tuning tips
This topic describes considerations for tuning Web services.

Enabling security decreases performance. You can tune your security configuration to minimize this impact. For more information, see Tune your security configuration in Security.

Additional tuning parameters

These topics provide information about other components of your environment that can affect WebSphere Application Server performance:

Hardware capacity and configuration
This topic provides information about configuring your hardware for optimal performance.

Java virtual machine tuning parameters
This topic describes tuning parameters for the OS/400 Java virtual machine and other tips for optimizing Java application performance.

Web server tuning parameters
This topic provides information about optimizing the performance of your Web server.

Database tuning
This topic provides information about tuning database performance.

TCP/IP buffer sizes
This topic describes how TCP/IP buffer sizes can affect performance.