Performance

WE currenlty run Weblogic on a AIX Server with 4gb of ram, and the heap size is 256m and the threadcout=200, And guess what the system is so slow it hurts,
Any assistance would be great.
James Parsons

You really need to give people more information in order to get good advice.
First, there's additional hardware info:
- How many processors? what speed? What is cahse size?
- What is the bandwidth?
- What are the network loads and characteristsics?
Second, there's the actual application:
- What are you doing? How does it work?
Then there's usage and load:
- How is it being used?
- How many users per second? What types of requests?
- Are there load peaks? Or those requests of a special type? (e.g. everyone logs in at 9am sharp)
Finally there's system info:
- What else is running on the server? How is it being used?

As a first guess, if you think you need 4G of RAM, why is your heap size only set to 256M? I'd start by upping the initial heap size
--Mark

Given the fact that you've only given two parameters (heap size and thread count), I'm assuming that you think your problem lies in one of those areas.
A starting point would be to turn verbose garbage collection on, and monitor how many garbage collections you are doing (especially full garbage collections), and how long they are taking. There are many heap related parameters you can fiddle with to try to reduce garbage collection times.
As a general rule, you don't want to spin off more threads than you need, so a good first step would be to determine what that number is. A good way of doing so would be to deploy a servlet to the application server that simply outputs the active count on its thread group. You can then schedule a task that hits that servlet, and saves the output at regular intervals.