RE: [docbook-apps] Strange slowdown in stylesheets

["Dick Hamilton" <rlhamilton@frii.com>]

Barton,

You nailed it.  Turns out I had Sun's 1.6 on the system,
but Ubuntu was pointing to gcj.  I used update-alternatives
to select 1.6, and that took care of the problem. Everything
is back to the expected speed.

Thanks for the help.

Dick Hamilton

Managing Writers: A Real World Guide to Managing Technical Documentation
http://xmlpress.net/managingwriters.html 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Barton Wright [mailto:barton.wright@streambase.com] 
> Sent: Friday, March 27, 2009 12:23 PM
> To: Dick Hamilton; docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org
> Subject: RE: [docbook-apps] Strange slowdown in stylesheets
> 
> 
> 1. Were you using Java 1.5 on SuSe? Java 1.6 is significantly faster.
> 
> 2. Check to make sure you're using the JRE you intend. Ubuntu 
> installs ready to use gcj or perhaps icedtea as the default 
> system JRE, and remains set up that way even if you install a 
> Sun JRE or JDK. If you've installed a Sun JRE, you need to 
> make it the system-wide default in the alternatives system. 
> Run update-alternatives as root and select the JRE you intend 
> to use for the java, javac, and several other commands.
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dick Hamilton [mailto:rlhamilton@frii.com] 
> Sent: Friday, March 27, 2009 2:10 PM
> To: docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org
> Subject: [docbook-apps] Strange slowdown in stylesheets
> 
> I just moved my environment from SuSE to Ubuntu, and have
> generally been very pleased with the change.
> 
> However, after the move, my DocBook stylesheet builds are
> taking significantly longer to run than they used to, even
> though I'm running on the same hardware and software.
> 
> At first, I thought I might have messed up the catalog
> settings and caused Saxon to go out to the web for schemas,
> etc, but I see no network traffic during a build. Instead,
> what I see is one cpu pegged at 100% and the other idling
> along at 25%.
> 
> Here is the environment:
> 
> AMD 64 dual core, running Ubuntu 2.6.27-11, Saxon 6.5.3,
> Java 1.5.0., 1.74.2 stylesheets.
> 
> Has anyone run into anything like this before or have any
> suggestions on where to look for possible problems?
> 
> Best Regards,
> Dick Hamilton
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