Critical Analysis and You

Statememt:
Our Powerschool server is slow to process attended.

Not a lot of information there, right? So based solely on that tidbit, what would you recommend as a solution?

• Add another "node" to the app server, either an image or database server
• Mess with the number of handlers issued by Tomcat
• Fool with the Apache configuration
• Reboot the server
• Gather more data in order to narrow down where the performance bottleneck is before proceeding with any other step.

Some of us might consider the last option to be the only viable choice. Too bad Pearson support and our own DBA have instead recommended everything else on the list. :/