Hi,

I can confirm your observation.

Netscape is very slow! But sometimes it's even slow on a IE.
But I understand that it takes some time to gather all those informations - think of 
contacting 5 different url's simultaneously to get their content! For software 
projects like jetspeed I would say the most important part is a clever caching 
mechanism! Maybe we can do some improvements on it...

Andreas Kempf




> -----Original Message-----
> From: Christoph Steinbeck [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Donnerstag, 13. Dezember 2001 16:19
> To: Jetspeed Users List
> Subject: Re: Performance of latest release of Jetspeed-1.3a2
> 
> 
> Paul, 
> 
> thanks for the quick answer. And you solved the mystery. The 
> problem is
> Netscape 4.7x. D**n!
> Internet Explorer and Mozilla show the pages instantaneously. 
> The effect is dramatic. 15 sec for showing the entry sceen on Netscape
> 4.78.. The logo and everything above the thin line (login form, etc.)
> was there immediately but the rest of the portlets (jetspeed, apache
> jetspeed, welcome) takes those 15 sec to appear. 
> 
> I don't want any "This page is worst viewed with NS 4.7x" logos on my
> site. :-)
> 
> Cheers, 
> 
> Chris
> 
> --
> Dr. Christoph Steinbeck (http://www.ice.mpg.de/departments/ChemInf)
> MPI of Chemical Ecology, Winzerlaer Str. 10, Beutenberg Campus, 07745
> Jena, Germany
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> What is man but that lofty spirit - that sense of enterprise. 
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> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Paul Spencer wrote:
> > 
> > Chris,
> > As you pointed out, performance is based in many factors.  
> The retrieval
> > portlet content is one.  Another is related to how fast the 
> browser can
> > render the returned page.  Netscape 4.7x has a known 
> performance problem
> > with nested tables.  Jetspeed uses nested tables :(
> > 
> > 10 second is a long time to display the Jetspeed home page. 
>  I am not
> > seeing this.  Most of the time Jetspeed's home page is 
> displayed in <1
> > second.  By the way, thank you for quantifying "slow performance" !!
> > 
> > Places to look:
> > o Log files!  Including Jetspeed's, Tomcat's, and the web server's.
> > o General performance on the server machine(s), i.e. if server is
> >    low on memory it will spend a lot of time swapping pages instead
> >    of running applications.
> > o Load and configuration on the client machine, i.e. is the client
> >    a 100 MHz PII with 16 MB of memory?
> > o Proxies, the lurk on corporate networks and can cause caching and
> >    performance problems :(
> > o Firewalls can prevent prevent content retrieval and cause jetspeed
> >    to wait for the request to time-out.
> > o General network performance
> > 
> > Paul Spencer
> > 
> > Christoph Steinbeck wrote:
> > 
> > > Hi everybody,
> > >
> > > I must say that this latest release of Jetspeed-1.3a2 is a great
> > > achievement. I was able to run and configure it (including email
> > > confirmation, etc.) within a few minutes.
> > > Now, since we are planning to use this for a scientific database
> > > front-end, I was wondering whether the relatively slow 
> response times
> > > that I get here, are
> > >
> > > - due to a problem on my side, or
> > > - a known problem, or
> > > - a feature, not a bug :-)
> > >
> > > and whether one can do anything about it.
> > >
> > > I understand that if you have all these news feed 
> portlets switched on,
> > > the response can be slowed down due to non reachable 
> sites somewhere
> > > else.
> > > Indeed, when I switched off all these feed-portlets, I 
> could reduce the
> > > time for a page to appear from several minutes to less 
> then ten seconds.
> > > But of course, that's still too slow. Are there some 
> caching features,
> > > that need to switched on, or anything else I can do about it?
> > >
> > > Cheers,
> > >
> > > Chris
> > >
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> Campus, 07745
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