1) The exception throwing hotspot (see prior mail for profiles):
Observed when using an XMLReader without validation
2) Xerces HEAD is 2x faster than 1.5 RC xerces internal:
Observed when using an XMLReader with validation against a W3C XML Schema when two schemas instead of one schema are specified with the "http://apache.org/xml/properties/schema/external-schemaLocation"; property. Two schemas vs. one schema is the only diff in the setup. There is no performance regression when using one schema only. Again, the profiles below seem to indicate Exception raising to make the difference.
About the usage: In the setup the documents themselves do not specify schema locations - the property does. The schemas are pretty straightforward - nothing fancy. We are reusing the XMLReader object for each parse via a ThreadLocal. We initialize the XMLReader with a grammar pool along the following lines:
// These are stored in the order of preference.
private static final String[] schemaParsers = {
"org.apache.xerces.parsers.SAXParser",
"com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.SAXParser" // JDK 1.5
};// These are stored in the order of preference.
private static final String[] schemaGrammarPools = {
"org.apache.xerces.util.XMLGrammarPoolImpl",
"com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.util.XMLGrammarPoolImpl" // JDK 1.5
};
XMLReader parser;
for (int i = 0; i < schemaParsers.length; i++) {
try {
parser = XMLReaderFactory.createXMLReader(schemaParsers[i]);
boolean wantReusableParser = true;
if (wantReusableParser) {
// This improves performance and, more importantly, prevents xerces
// bugs/exceptions when the Builder is used more than once (at least for
// xerces-2.6.2). I'm not sure how to actually reproduce those problems :-(
// See http://xml.apache.org/xerces2-j/faq-grammars.html
parser.setProperty("http://apache.org/xml/properties/internal/grammar- pool",
Class.forName(schemaGrammarPools[i]).newInstance());
}
setupFeaturesAndProps(parser);
} catch (....
...
}
Here are the profiler snippets:
JDK 1.5 RC with internally packaged xerces (two W3C XML Schemas): ------------------------------------------------------
Compiled + native Method
8.5% 355 + 0 ExceptionBlob
3.4% 141 + 1 com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.xs.XMLSchemaValidator.handleStar tElement
Stub + native Method 38.2% 0 + 1603 java.lang.Throwable.fillInStackTrace 1.4% 0 + 60 java.lang.StrictMath.floor 39.6% 0 + 1663 Total stub
Thread-local ticks: 0.1% 3 Blocked (of total) 0.1% 3 Class loader 0.1% 6 Compilation 0.1% 4 Unknown: thread_state
Flat profile of 0.01 secs (1 total ticks): DestroyJavaVM
Thread-local ticks: 100.0% 1 Blocked (of total)
Global summary of 85.75 seconds: 100.0% 4223 Received ticks 0.5% 21 Received GC ticks 6.7% 285 Compilation 0.1% 3 Class loader 0.1% 4 Unknown code
real 1m26.020s user 1m23.680s sys 0m1.410s
JDK 1.5 RC with xerces CVS HEAD (two W3C XML Schemas):
------------------------------------------------------
Compiled + native Method
6.1% 132 + 0 org.apache.xerces.impl.xs.XMLSchemaValidator.handleStartElement
4.7% 102 + 0 java.nio.ByteBuffer.<init>
4.0% 87 + 0 org.apache.xerces.impl.dv.xs.XSSimpleTypeDecl.normalize
3.6% 78 + 0 org.apache.xerces.impl.dv.xs.AnyURIDV.getActualValue
3.4% 10 + 64 org.apache.xerces.impl.xs.XSModelImpl.<init>
Stub + native Method 4.6% 0 + 101 java.lang.Throwable.fillInStackTrace 2.1% 0 + 45 java.lang.StrictMath.floor 6.7% 0 + 146 Total stub
Thread-local ticks: 0.3% 7 Blocked (of total) 0.0% 1 Class loader 0.2% 4 Compilation 0.1% 3 Unknown: thread_state
Flat profile of 0.02 secs (1 total ticks): DestroyJavaVM
Thread-local ticks: 100.0% 1 Blocked (of total)
Global summary of 45.67 seconds: 100.0% 2207 Received ticks 0.9% 19 Received GC ticks 12.4% 274 Compilation 0.0% 1 Class loader 0.1% 3 Unknown code
real 0m45.928s user 0m43.250s sys 0m0.220s
Any insights? Wolfgang.
On Sep 2, 2004, at 11:14 PM, Neeraj Bajaj wrote:
Interestingly we identified the same problem few weeks back and i have the fix available on my local machine but didn't put back because it's not that clean.
Currently the fix includes making some changes in DocumentScannerImpl.java & XMLEntityScanner based on the depth of entities and current entity being null.
I was looking for some thing more clean which could tell the scanner about the end of Document. I will look into this again and put back the change in next
few days.
I have a server app that parsers millions of smallish documents.
Performance has been improved at lot by reusing XMLReaders. It's pretty good but could perhaps get better in light of the (perhaps dubious?) hints given by the profiler snippet below.
Accordingly, the theory is that throwing an (artifical) EOFException in XMLEntityScanner.load() at the end of each document/entity consumes some 25% (JDK 1.5) and some 15% (JDK 1.4.2) of the total execution time, the single hottest spot in the program. Probably due too the heavy nature of exceptions and in particular Throwable.fillInStackTrace(). If this can indeed be confirmed by others, would it perhaps be possibly (and correct) to restructure the relevant xerces internals to avoid raising artificial exceptions for what appears to be normal program control flow (the documents and streams are fine)?
Configuration: Sun JDK 1.5 RC and Sun JDK 1.4.2, xerces CVS head [never using the JDK internal xerces which appears to be twice as slow in this case, for whatever reason]
JDK 1.5 RC contains almost latest Xerces. Could you tell what are you doing so that we can identify the problem and fix it ?
Thanks, Neeraj
Here is the JDK 1.5 profiler snippet (java -server -Xprof): ----------------------------------------------------------- Stub + native Method 28.6% 0 + 487 java.lang.Throwable.fillInStackTrace 28.6% 0 + 487 Total stub
Thread-local ticks: 0.1% 1 Blocked (of total) 0.1% 2 Class loader 0.1% 2 Compilation 0.2% 3 Unknown: thread_state
Flat profile of 0.01 secs (1 total ticks): DestroyJavaVM
Thread-local ticks: 100.0% 1 Blocked (of total)
Global summary of 35.44 seconds: 100.0% 1718 Received ticks 0.7% 12 Received GC ticks 9.7% 167 Compilation 0.1% 2 Class loader 0.2% 3 Unknown code
real 0m35.715s user 0m34.170s sys 0m0.190s
Here is the JDK 1.4 profiler snippet (java -server -Xprof): ----------------------------------------------------------- Stub + native Method 12.7% 4 + 239 java.lang.Throwable.fillInStackTrace 12.7% 4 + 239 Total stub
Runtime stub + native Method 0.2% 3 + 0 _rethrow_Java 0.2% 3 + 0 Total runtime stubs
Thread-local ticks: 3.1% 61 Blocked (of total) 0.4% 7 Interpreter 0.1% 2 Compilation 4.9% 93 Unknown: running frame
Flat profile of 0.00 secs (1 total ticks): DestroyJavaVM
Thread-local ticks: 100.0% 1 Blocked (of total)
Global summary of 43.25 seconds: 100.0% 2071 Received ticks 3.8% 79 Received GC ticks 6.2% 128 Compilation 0.5% 10 Other VM operations 0.3% 7 Interpreter 4.5% 93 Unknown code
real 0m43.517s user 0m42.100s sys 0m0.530s
Trace via java -server -agentlib:hprof=cpu=samples,depth=30:
-----------------------------------------------------------
TRACE 300347:
java.lang.Throwable.fillInStackTrace(Throwable.java:Unknown line)
java.lang.Throwable.<init>(Throwable.java:181)
java.lang.Exception.<init>(Exception.java:29)
java.io.IOException.<init>(IOException.java:28)
java.io.EOFException.<init>(EOFException.java:32)
org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLEntityScanner.load(<Unknown Source>:Unknown line)
org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLEntityScanner.skipSpaces(<Unknown Source>:Unknown line)
org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDocumentScannerImpl$TrailingMiscDispatcher.d is patch(<Unknown Source>:Unknown line)
org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.scanDocument(<Un kn own Source>:Unknown line)
org.apache.xerces.parsers.DTDConfiguration.parse(<Unknown Source>:Unknown line)
org.apache.xerces.parsers.DTDConfiguration.parse(<Unknown Source>:Unknown line)
org.apache.xerces.parsers.XMLParser.parse(<Unknown Source>:Unknown line)
org.apache.xerces.parsers.AbstractSAXParser.parse(<Unknown Source>:Unknown line)
nu.xom.Builder.build(Builder.java:786)
nu.xom.Builder.build(Builder.java:569)
gov.lbl.dsd.firefish.trash.XMLXomBench.main(XMLXomBench.java:62)
I guess the relevant block is: -----------------------------------------------------------
XMLEntityScanner.load(...): ... if (changeEntity) { fEntityManager.endEntity(); if (fCurrentEntity == null) { throw new EOFException(); } // handle the trailing edges if (fCurrentEntity.position == fCurrentEntity.count) { load(0, true); } }
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