Hi Alex,

next week I'm out of the office. After that I will be able to
run the tests again and report the results.

Arthur 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alex Popescu [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> Sent: Friday, October 20, 2006 6:15 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: JackRabbit performance and scalability
> 
> It looks like the usage of Lucene 2.0 is already possible:
> http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/JCR-352 (see provided patches).
> 
> I am quite curious if this is solving the problems Arthur is 
> mentioning in this thread.
> 
> ./alex
> --
> .w( the_mindstorm )p.
> 
> > Arthur Meyer wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > these are the most important issues we have encountered so far:
> > >
> > > Increasing the number of nodes in the repository also has a big 
> > > negative effect on the performance of queries.
> > > When we multiplied our content by four, our queries took 
> about twice 
> > > as much time to execute.
> > > Hopefully, Lucene 2.0 may have improvements here aswell.
> > >
> > > The item state cache is limited and can't be configured 
> as far is I 
> > > know.
> > > Since loading node items from the database is relatively 
> expensive, 
> > > we would like to be able to cache as much as possible.
> > >
> > > Node.isNodeType() calls cause monitor contention in a concurrent 
> > > environment.
> > > For example, if you use the getUUID() method on nodes a lot, this 
> > > will become a serious bottleneck.
> > > "http-18080-Processor8" daemon prio=1 tid=0x08571740 nid=0x79ca 
> > > waiting for monitor entry [0xa97f1000..0xa97f2eb0]
> > >         at
> > > 
> org.apache.jackrabbit.core.nodetype.NodeTypeRegistry.getEffectiveNod
> > > eTyp
> > > e(NodeTypeRegistry.java:384)
> > >         - waiting to lock <0xb38677c8> (a
> > > org.apache.jackrabbit.core.nodetype.NodeTypeRegistry)
> > >         at
> > > 
> org.apache.jackrabbit.core.NodeImpl.getEffectiveNodeType(NodeImpl.ja
> > > va:8
> > > 68)
> > >         at
> > > org.apache.jackrabbit.core.NodeImpl.isNodeType(NodeImpl.java:1245)
> > >         at
> > > org.apache.jackrabbit.core.NodeImpl.getUUID(NodeImpl.java:2802)
> > >
> > > Further, the parsing of nodetype names seems to be a 
> bottleneck in 
> > > the
> > > isNodeType() implementation
> > >         at
> > > 
> org.apache.jackrabbit.name.NameFormat.parseIgnoreCache(NameFormat.ja
> > > va:2
> > > 52)
> > >         at
> > > org.apache.jackrabbit.name.NameFormat.parse(NameFormat.java:80)
> > >         at
> > > org.apache.jackrabbit.core.NodeImpl.isNodeType(NodeImpl.java:2552)
> > >
> > > Similar monitor contention issues occur in the 
> > > CachingNamespaceResolver class.
> > > Using the util.concurrent classes could help solving these issues.
> > >
> > > Finally, we're also very interested in using jackrabbit in a 
> > > clustered environment.
> > >
> > > Arthur Meyer
> > >
> >

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