Hello,

I have recently tried to use POI to add a few thousand rows to a spreadsheet. It doesn't make much difference if I start with an almost blank spreadsheet or one with dummy values in the all the cells that will be populated on a run of known size.

I have 42 columns.
Operations move fairly quickly for the first 600 to 650 rows and then slow down considerably.

e.g.
On a test run on a 1GHz Windows machine:
Time to update the first 600 rows takes about 8 seconds.
Time to update the following rows to 1850 takes about 4 minutes. At around row 700 the code is updating around 13 rows a second.
By row 1800 it's down to 5 rows a second.

On a live run with better hardware than my test setup populating 6500 rows takes close to 25 minutes. This is on a 2GHz Debian machine.

On neither machine does memory use approach the max allocated.

jdk 1.4.2
poi-2.5.1-final-20040804

Any help, tips, pointers etc would be most appreciated. It would make my life easier if I don't have to redo this as a csv.

TIA

Brett Knights


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