Confluence goes down everytime

Question

Hi,

We have Confluence Instance with MSSQL database. Our Confluence Instance goes down pretty often.

I was looking for Database Pool connections but i couldn't find it under confluence-cfg.xml file.

Any help will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

AKash

Mike Rathwell · Answer

Akash, The tomcat datasource statements are in /conf/server.xml. The pool connections are in

/confluence/WEB-INF/web.xml. This last, when I upgraded to 5.7 perhaps isn't necessary (had some problems that Atlassian helped me out with) as they were commenting that it really doesn't add much to the performance.

I think, first, let us know if anything shows up in the log files that might provide a clue. Personally, I might take out the connection pool statements from the web.xml as well in case that is giving SQL Server fits with trying to handle too many connections at once.

On a more technical personal note, I would really consider just not using SQL Server; I've had nothing but anguish anytime I've had to touch it and, if you have the choice, go to PostgreSQL being, in my experience, faster, lighter, and far more reliable.

Nic Brough -Adaptavist- · Answer

What does the log file say is going wrong?