Improving Lawson Performance in Windows

Identifying performance issues and improving performance for Lawson applications in a Windows Environment can sometimes be tricky.

This article provides some ways to improve performance specifically when batch jobs are running more slowly than expected.

1. Update bpm.properties to assist the performance batch jobs that call services in IPA
   1. On the Lawson server, navigate to LAWDIR/system/bpm.properties
   2. Remove the lines lpxMaxHeap=XXXXX and lpsMinHeap=XXXXX
   3. Add a line “useLPSBridgeSocket=true” (check if the line exists already)
   4. Restart Lawson services
2. Set Windows page file to 32Gb
   1. On the LSF server, search for “Advanced System Settings”
   2. Go to the Advanced tab
   3. Under “Performance”, select “Settings…”
      
   4. Select the Advanced tab
   5. Under Virtual memory, select “Change…”
      
   6. Unchecked “Automatically manage…”
   7. Select the drive where Lawson is installed
      
   8. Select “Custom size” and set the max to 32000
   9. Click “Set” then “OK”
   10. Reboot the server