I was once perplexed by a bizarre performance issue, I encountered at seemingly random intervals, in an application I help to maintain. The application kept freezing up, without any log messages to use for diagnosis. This was very frustrating, because it meant the application server typically had to be restarted manually to restore service. After… Continue reading Fixing Performance Problems on Your JBoss Web Apps By Diagnosing Blocked Thread Issues
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Sending Mail in Shell Scripts via an External Server with Nail
If you’ve ever tried sending email via the command line, using the mail utility, you may find that the method can be unreliable in some cases. The email messages are often intercepted by spam bots, filtered by security programs, etc. A more elegant and stable alternative, is to use your existing email server to send… Continue reading Sending Mail in Shell Scripts via an External Server with Nail