RE: Performance Problem Question: Web Container (Tomca

There's something very wrong with the configuration of your tomcat
environment, but without more information it's impossible to say what.

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andreas Guther [mailto:aguther@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: 23 June 2005 16:49
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject:  Performance Problem Question: Web Container 
> (Tomcat) vs. Console excecution
> 
>  
> Hello!
> 
> I am using Saxon 6.5.3 and I am seeing a huge performance difference
> transforming the same input file once via console and then 
> within a web
> container, here Tomcat 5.
> 
> I wonder if there is something I can fine tune to get the same
> performance seen in a console window when running within a web
> container.
> 
> What happens is the following:
> 
> We have an application that retrieves XML data from the backend and
> transforms it with XSLT to different output formats.
> 
> If I have huge XML input my web application has to wait about 
> 25 seconds
> for a transformation.  I have captured the XML data and saved it in a
> file.  I then run from command line the same transformation 
> with Saxons
> -t option to see that the transformation here only takes 1.5 seconds.
> 
> The XML nicely formatted has 20,464 lines and its size is 
> 853,587 bytes.
> 
> The 1.5 seconds in this extreme case is acceptable and I would be fine
> with it.  But then I have the same execution within the web container
> and get the 25 seconds which is a major drag.
> 
> Is there a general explanation for that or recommendations 
> what could be
> altered to achieve a better performance?
> 
> Thankful for any ideas and advice,
> 
> Andreas
> 
> 
> 
> Andreas Guther
> Software Engineer
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