Re: Performance with multiple users during transformat

I have a 250 KB XML to be transformed into another XMl
document. I am using a high end UNIX box with 8 CPUs
and 32 Gig RAM. Intially I was using Xalan and the timings for
transformation are as follows:
1 user : 3 secs
2 users: 6 secs
4 users: 8 secs

Then I changed to Saxon8 and the timings are
1 user : 1.5 secs
2 users: 3 secs
4 users: 4 secs
(I fear whats going to happen when 1000 users will use
the applicaiton)

You need to explain your measurement scenario more carefully. How is the
XSLT processor running - as a servlet? How are you measuring response time?
What is the think time between transactions? Are these transformations all
using the same stylesheet? Are you saving the compiled stylesheet in memory?
Are they all running in the same thread, or do you have a pool of
threads/processes?

Since Saxon is based on SAX parsing there should be no
memory constrained (Also my 32 Gig RAM is never
utilised more than 5GB at any time.)

No, that's a bad misunderstanding. Every XSLT processor today builds the
source document in memory. However, 250Kb is not particularly big. Again,
however, it depends on how you are scheduling the work, how much memory you
are allocating to the Java VM, and so on.