Troubleshooting
Problem
On WebSphere Application Server V7, XML files may increase everytime you run startup and stop comands for dmgr/nodeagent/appserver processes. It may cause a high disk-space usage requiring users to monitor and maintain.
Cause
Everytime you run startServer/stopServer/serverStatus/wsadmin/manageprofiles commands, platform.xml file is copied to history directory and it causes a high disk-space usage over a long period of time. These commands would need to be run hundreds of thousands of times for size to become a problem as each run creates about a 2KB file, it would take nearly 500 runs to generate 1MB on the filesystem.
The path for platform.xml file is "<Profile_ROOT>/configuration/org.eclipse.update/platform.xml" and history directory is "<Profile_ROOT>/configuration/org.eclipse.update/history".
The size of a platform.xml is about 1KB-2KB but this platform.xml file is copied everytime customers run startServer/stopServer/serverStatus/manageprofiles commands.
Environment
All users of WebSphere Application Server version 7.0 for all edition, all platforms(AIX , HP-UX , i5/OS , Linux , Solaris , Windows)
Diagnosing The Problem
Check whether xml files are increasing in your environment in the 'history' folder as described.
Resolving The Problem
Open <Profile_ROOT>/configuration/org.eclipse.update/platform.xml with any editors. Change "transient" parameter from "false" to "true".
<config date="1276249438156" transient="true" version="3.0">
You do not need to restart servers.
After you change transient="true", no backup files of platform.xml create any more under <Profile_ROOT>/configuration/org.eclipse.update/history directory.
This setting change is only used for eclipse plugin configuration, so it does not affect to any runtime of WebSphere Application Server.
About the generated platform.xml under <Profile_ROOT>/configuration/org.eclipse.update/history is safely deleted.
Note: This problem does not occur for WebSphere Application Server V8 users.
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Document Information
Modified date:
15 June 2018
UID
swg21590262