Hello, I found the roots of the poor cache performance (at least, in my sitemap). Cache works great (under 50ms, usually ~20ms) when all required to assemble the pipeline components are available from the pool. If pool does not have enough components, it creates them. But, to create a couple of transformers it takes ~200 ms (PIII 750MHz). In Excalibur, component pools are created with min and max set to 2 and 8 respectfully. In my case, it is required to have around 10 transformers to assemble a pipeline. In practice, it means that for EVERY request, it is going to create at least 2 instance of transformers, and then it destroys these two instances just because pool reached its maximum. The result is ~250 serving time even for cached pages, and more - for generated. What can I do in this situation? Or, how to make min/max values configurable? Thanks for any tips - or any clues how to solve this problem. For the reference, from the DefaultComponentPool: -------------------------------------------------------- public DefaultComponentPool(ObjectFactory factory) throws Exception { super(factory, new DefaultComponentPoolController(1, 2), 2, 8); } -------------------------------------------------------- Thanks, Vadim --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]