My performance target is 250 requests/second. I can spread that out over multiple 
servers though.

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> From:         Tom Klaasen (TeleRelay)[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Reply To:     [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent:         Wednesday, January 02, 2002 10:53 AM
> To:   [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject:      RE: Cocoon scalability continued
> 
> http://www.scoot.be is C2-powered and is tested under quite some load
> (100 requests/sec, IIRC) and has also quite some load IRL. No XSP's,
> indeed, but also no caching (MRUMemoryStore seemed to be leaking in
> those days. Maybe this has improved in the mean time).
> 
> Unless your going to develop an even bigger app, I'd dare to say: go for
> it.
> 
> Success,
> tomK
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Lewis, Andrew J [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 
> > Sent: woensdag 2 januari 2002 16:46
> > To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
> > Subject: RE: Cocoon scalability continued
> > 
> > 
> > I am getting ready to recommend Cocoon for a very large 
> > project where it will need to handle immense load. In 
> > reality, XSP is more than I need and I don't expect to be 
> > using it. From what I have read, most of the scalability 
> > problems seem to be XSP related - can anyone confrim or 
> > reject that thought for me? 
> > 
> > > ----------
> > > From:     Michael Homeijer[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > > Reply To:         [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > Sent:     Wednesday, January 02, 2002 5:03 AM
> > > To:       '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
> > > Subject:  Cocoon scalability continued
> > > 
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > This mail is a follow-up to the following mails:
> > > 
> > > (Cocoon 2 RC2 performance disappointment).
> > > http://www.mail-archive.com/cocoon-dev@xml.apache.org/msg06455.html
> > > 
> > > and
> > > 
> > > (Cocoon 2.0 Scalability Disappointment)
> > > http://www.mail-archive.com/cocoon-dev@xml.apache.org/msg06751.html
> > > 
> > > In the last weeks we observed that Cocoon performance and 
> > scalability are
> > > greatly influenced by a number of factors, to name a few:
> > > - Complexity of pipelines (slows down pipeline composition)
> > >   > Stefano mentioned to me that entire pipelines can be pooled. 
> > >   > Can anybody give me some directions on how to accomplish this?
> > > 
> > > - Size of the documents going through the pipeline (slows 
> > down translations)
> > > - Size of the documents that will be cached (caching 
> > appears to be very time
> > > consuming)
> > > - Number of templates in the XSL translation (xsl tuning is 
> > very difficult)
> > > 
> > > To tune our C2 based site we tried three ways of 
> > implementing our website,
> > > all with different approaches. The approach we thought 
> > should be the one
> > > with the best performance/scalability turned out worse than the C1
> > > implementation (performance of the three range from several 
> > times slower
> > > than the C1 implementation to 10% faster).
> > > 
> > > Luckily, with the new component approach it was just a few 
> > days work (mainly
> > > changing places of caching and XSL translations) to get a better
> > > performance(10% on the C1 approach, and we think we can get 
> > further now we
> > > know which strings to pull. Furthermore we didn't try the 
> > generator based
> > > approach yet instead of XSP).
> > > 
> > > But then again, I don't think every project will get this far... 
> > > 
> > > and I think that new versions of Cocoon will show a very different
> > > performance/scalability profile (once the new cache,
> > > sitemap approach or new Xalan versions are released), this 
> > could also be
> > > dangerous without some sort of performance prediction model.
> > > 
> > > In the weeks we tried to tune our C2 based site, we went 
> > from designing and
> > > implementing to a more trial and error approach in configuring the
> > > pipelines. Because of the unpredictable results (because of 
> > complexity or
> > > lack of experience on our side?) and the pressure from our > 
> > customer the team
> > > spirit went down. Furthermore it's hard to derive best 
> > practices or some
> > > golden rule from our work.
> > > 
> > > Because of this I think it is not enough to have a cache 
> > that tunes itself
> > > or a profiler. It will help but only once your site is up 
> > and running.
> > > Because of the many ways of implementing a C2 site, I think 
> > there should be
> > > some kind of prediction model that shows how to structure 
> > functionality in
> > > C2.
> > > 
> > > I don't have a clear idea on what this should look like, 
> > but maybe someone
> > > can comment on our experiences.
> > > 
> > > TIA,
> > > Michael Homeijer.
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
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