Hopefully this is the right place for the following information. If not, I'm sorry. I don't really do active development on tomcat (cvs updates, etc) but while profiling our application, I noticed a couple of minor improvements that could be made to BodyContentImpl.java. Specifically, in 'reAllocBuff', a buffer allocation and arraycopy can be removed. In 'clear', a buffer allocation can be removed. We use a lot of tags and some of them have large bodies (causing calls to reAllocBuff), so both reAllocBuff and clear showed up as "hot spots". The diff is below: 110,111c110 < char[] tmp = new char [bufferSize] < System.arraycopy(cb, 0, tmp, 0, cb.length) --- > char[] tmp = null 116c115 < cb = new char [bufferSize + Constants.DEFAULT_BUFFER_SIZE] --- > tmp = new char [bufferSize + Constants.DEFAULT_BUFFER_SIZE] 119c118 < cb = new char [bufferSize + len] --- > tmp = new char [bufferSize + len] 122c121,122 < System.arraycopy(tmp, 0, cb, 0, tmp.length) --- > System.arraycopy(cb, 0, tmp, 0, cb.length) > cb = tmp 502,503d501 < cb = new char [Constants.DEFAULT_BUFFER_SIZE] < bufferSize = Constants.DEFAULT_BUFFER_SIZE I hope someone can make use of this. -Casey --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]