Hi, My first guess would be the GC. Try running the app with the switch -verbose:gc, and see if the GC is freezing your app
Mike > -----Original Message----- > From: Kansal Sumitabh [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday 27 March 2003 22:36 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [dom4j-user] Performance variation using dom4j > > > Hello, > > I am evaluating various Java XML parsers for best > performance. Some of the areas I am testing dom4j are > - > 1. Parsing the document. > 2. Using XPath queries. > 3. Manipulating the xml document, adding nodes, > removing nodes etc. > 4. Use FindByNode > > I see that the performance while doing selectNodes and > specifying an XPath varies considerably across runs - for my > 8MB xml file, sometimes it takes 3.2 seconds and sometimes 20 seconds. > > Any idea why it should be happenning? > > Thanks, > Sumitabh > > __________________________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Platinum - Watch CBS' NCAA March Madness, live on your > desktop! http://platinum.yahoo.com > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by: > The Definitive IT and Networking Event. Be There! > NetWorld+Interop Las Vegas 2003 -- Register today! > http://ads.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/redirect.pl?keyn0001en > _______________________________________________ > dom4j-user mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/d> om4j-user > ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: The Definitive IT and Networking Event. Be There! NetWorld+Interop Las Vegas 2003 -- Register today! http://ads.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/redirect.pl?keyn0001en _______________________________________________ dom4j-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dom4j-user