Christopher Painter-Wakefield wrote:

>The most obvious thing that jumps out here other than raw MHz is that you
>are running C2.1-dev on the Sun and C2.0.3 on the PC, so you aren't really
>comparing apples to apples.  Maybe that isn't a factor,
>

It is a factor. Of course not x10, but could be close to x2.

Vadim


>but I would
>certainly want to check it out before anything else.  Especially with that
>"-dev" dangling on the end.  Ditto with JDK versions - you could have a
>quirky JDK1.4 release or something.  And ditto again with Tomcat versions;
>you can run the full Tomcat 4.0.4 (not LE) under JDK1.4, works just fine.
>You should also check that you have a level playing field in every other
>way, e.g., make sure your Sun isn't running something else (like a database
>server), make sure the Sun is on the same piece of network (instead of
>across a slow T1 to another building), etc.
>
>It appears you have an older Sun workstation, while your PC's are very,
>very new technology.  If you are planning to deploy to a newer Sun server,
>like a Sun Fire 280R with 900 MHz UltraSparc III Cu and 1 GB of memory, I
>imagine you'll get better results.
>
>FWIW, we deploy on one of Sun's cheapest servers, which has a single 500
>MHz UltraSparc IIe and 1GB of memory.  The server is dedicated only for our
>application.  On the other hand, we develop on older PC's with 500 MHz and
>1 HGz PIII's and 256 MB of memory.  Performance on the servers is quite a
>bit better than on our PC's :)
>
>-Christopher
>
>
>
>Hi all
>
>We're developing a cocoon-application (so far only xslt pipelines,
>no apps) on a SunOS server.
>Everything works out well, but we're experiencing heavy
>performance problems. To make sure our application could
>be running fast, we tested it on a PC, which resulted in more
>than ten times faster response times. Which would be perfect,
>only SUN is our target platform.
>
>Are there any known issues about different jdk-versions?
>tomcat-versions? cocoon-versions? SunOS?, pitfalls? any
>tips to boost performance OR is our Sun Machine simply to slow?
>(see technical spec details below)
>
>Thanks in advance.
>Thomas Brusa
>
>
>below technical spec about our boxes:
>==============================================
>SUN:
>SunOS 5.8 Generic_108528-12 sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-60
>400Mhz
>512Mb Physical Memory
>jakarta-tomcat-4.0.4-LE-jdk14
>cocoon-2.1-dev (xml-cocoon2_20020822041959)
>jdk 1.4.0_01-b03
>==============================================
>PC:
>W2k
>2.4Ghz
>512Mb Physical Memory
>jakarta-tomcat-4.0.4
>cocoon-2.0.3
>jdk 1.3.1_04
>==============================================
>  
>




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