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Changing java libraries and increasing the heap size used by swingbench

I’ve been asked a couple of times recently about how to change the infrastructure libraries i.e. the Oracle jdbc driver. I try to always ship the latest jdbc/ons/ucp libraries but its possible that Oracle may realease a patch set whilst I’m working on something else. Its also possible people may want to investigate a bug or performance problem by trying out a selection of drivers. To change the jar files all that is needed is to move the old version out of the lib directory and copy the new one in, for example

$> cd swingbench$> mv lib/ojdbc6.jar ~/backup/ojdbc6.jar$> cp ~/newjdbc/ojcbc6.jar lib

Don’t try and keep multiple versions of the same driver in the lib directory. It can lead to unexpected results. When swingbench starts it looks in the lib directory for all the libraries (contained in the jar files) to use.

If you need to increase the amount of memory used by swingbench you need to edit a file called launcher.xml in the launcher directory. You might need to do this if you are planning to run with many thousands of threads. You need to changed the default value (1024m) to a larger one. For example


to something like

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