Speed up Weblogic Server startup times

Question

At my work, we use Weblogic Server to host an enterprise portal. Which is fine.

However, I\'ve recently had the opportunity to use Tomcat for some side projects, and I a

Answer 1

As krosenvold said, the random number generation can cause slow startup.

The recommendation from Oracle is to use one of the -D flags below - only on non-production systems since it lessen security.

Use -Djava.security.egd=file:///dev/urandom switch or file:/dev/./urandom to the command that starts weblogic.

The information above is taken from http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E12839_01/doc.1111/e14772/weblogic_server_issues.htm#CIHIIBGJ

If the -D flag doesn't work, look at the following solution: http://www.itonguard.com/20090313/weblogic-starts-slow/