Hi Chris!
  Thank you so much for your quick response. I'll have a look and I'll come
back here with my progress.

2016-02-26 17:30 GMT+01:00 Christopher Schultz <ch...@christopherschultz.net
>:

> Baldur,
>
> On 2/25/16 4:44 PM, Baldur Dae wrote:
> >   I have a Primefaces webapp which lets users upload files up to 50MB and
> > saves posted files into Alfresco (located in another tomcat machine).
> I've
> > successfully configured it to avoid Heap exceptions  but it is very slow
> > and has a huge impact in CPU load.
>
> If you use Tomcat to upload your files, it should not be using a lot of
> CPU, nor should it require a great deal of memory. Tomcat can be
> configured to put the in-progress uploading file onto the disk instead
> of in memory. There is a size threshold that triggers this to avoid the
> foolishness of storing 50MiB of data in the heap during an upload.
>
> >   Basically, the configuration has involved these steps:
> > - web.xml (PrimeFaces FileUpload Filter): thresholdSize set to 1MB
>
> PrimeFaces upload filter. This is the component performing the upload,
> not Tomcat. Please review the configuration of this filter. Perhaps
> there are trade-offs being made.
>
> > - Tomcat: maxPostSize parameter set to 0
>
> Does the PrimeFaces upload filter use POST or something else? (POST is
> typical, but it could be a PUT)
>
> > - Webapp: saves posted file using InputStream (
> >
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10326460/how-to-avoid-outofmemoryerror-when-uploading-a-large-file-using-jersey-client
> > )
> >
> > How can I improve it? Is it just a hardware problem?
>
> Probably not a hardware problem. The great thing about processes that
> are taking a lot of time is that you can take some thread dumps[1] to
> see what the process is doing.
>
> -chris
>
> [1]
>
> http://wiki.apache.org/tomcat/HowTo#How_do_I_obtain_a_thread_dump_of_my_running_webapp_.3F
>
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