Re: [iText-questions] iText & multithreading delays

2008-08-13 Thread robert meyer
Talmage: thank you for your response. I don't believe that making significant modifications to iText is the way we'd like to go about solving this problem. I was hoping to hear from someone that has used iText in a multi-thread / multi-processor environment, and if iText performed better for the

Re: [iText-questions] iText & multithreading delays

2008-08-04 Thread robert meyer
Paulo Soares glintt.com> writes: > > That's probably related to IO contention, iText does a lot of small reads. If you do everything in memory > what do you get? In any case, iText doesn't lock anything and any thread performance problems should be > addressed to the JVM. > > Paulo > Paulo:

[iText-questions] iText & multithreading delays

2008-08-04 Thread Robert Meyer
addToBody(obj, getNewObjectNumber(reader, k, 0), k != rootN); } At this point I thought it would make more sense to post my problem here and hope that someone can offer some explanation as to why processing slows down drastically a