Dear all, The following issue I've put up to the users mailing list, with no prevail, so I'd kindly ask you people for some help.
The problem is that when upgrading to Cocoon 2.1.10 for one of our software packages to make use of all the improvements in 2.1.10, we're hitting an enormous performance hit. We basically see that requests which would normally take 10ths to 100thms of microseconds now takes seconds upto a minut to execute, where the processor is fully used. Now basically we needed to make no modifications to our software to use 2.1.10 apart from updating dependencies. We think therefor that the bad performance comes from some way we use Cocoon, especially some classloading issue. I've profiles the application to some extent, and I'm seeing that the application is in fact slow because when executing a server-side JavaScript file, it is loading other JavaScript files (through cocoon.load()). This loading is slow, because even though it seems to be cached, it is calling the classloader to look-up the cache definitions of all referenced Java code. This makes an enormous hotspot in the Jetty ContextLoader classloader, which can return a reference to the class quite quickly, but has to give a lot of them. Now the total application, accessing a single page results in a number of execution of JavaScript files, and a JavaScript file is executed more than once. The most important hint probably is that I've looked at the most important JavaScript file, and I'm seeing that when executing this script more than once that in its execution of cocoon.load()'s of other files it is ALTERNATING fast and slow. And I really mean one time fast, then slow, then fast, then slow... When tracing back, there is no difference in its call stack between the two cases. I'd really appreciate any hints at the moment where to look at, because I'm running out of ideas where to trace the beast next. Thanx, \Berry -- Berry A.W. van Halderen [EMAIL PROTECTED] / [EMAIL PROTECTED] Disclaimer: the above is the author's personal opinion and is not the opinion or policy of his employer or of the little green men that have been following him all day.
