Hibernate Statistics and Spring JMX intregration

Writing about Spring JMX integration from Secret Plans and Clever Tricks

Chris wrote about this a while back and I dutifully investigated and started using this beautifully simple bit of configuration to get hibernate statistics showing up in the JMX console for a couple of web applications. This all seemed fine and well for a while and I never really looked at it further.

However, we recently had some performance problems with BlogBuilder and I was left scratching my head. After a bit of investigation, it looked like the hibernate statistics were turned on when I thought they were off. This shouldn't really matter, but it turns out it was logging and keeping every single SQL statement that hibernate had run since the last application restart! It shows all this SQL in the JMX console, but my browser blew up trying to render the page because it was trying to dump out 100,000's of lines of SQL to the page :(

If it really was keeping a log like this it could well be the cause of a performance problem, so I turned it off and I think so far the performance has been better…I'll know for sure tonight.

So…word of warning.

Only turn on the hibernate statistics if you really need them

: 04 Oct 2005 14:20 |  Tags: Hibernate Java Jmx Spring |  Comments (0) |  Report a problem