SOA 11g: Native IO must be enabled!

On a project working with Sun Solaris the server was very slow. I took 15 minutes to start and executing composites or accesing the "Human Worklist Application" or "Enterprise Manager" took ages.

I saw in both log files of the AdminServer and soa_server1, one small line:

<Native IO Disabled. Using Java IO.>

This line implies that the system will use Java code instead of O/S specific libraries for executing I/O function.

This can be fixed by setting the correct dynamic Libraries; LD_LIBRARY_PATH.

Make sure you set the LD_LIBRARY_PATH in your start scripts of the Admin and managed servers.

Add this in  the start scripts:

LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:$FMW_HOME/wlserver_10.3/server/native/solaris/sparc64
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH


This will result in the following line on the log :-)

<Native IO Enabled.>