Perhaps there's a hardware solution? Could you run more servers in parallel? Or have some sort of load distribution system?
(Just some generic server tips, I don't know much about XML-RPC) -Greg On 3/21/06, Diez B. Roggisch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sion Arrowsmith wrote: > > > I've got an established client-server application here where there > > is now a need to shovel huge amounts of data (structured as lists of > > lists) between the two, and the performance bottleneck has become > > the amount of time spent parsing XML (it's taking 100% CPU on one or > > other end of the connection and accounting for well over 50% of the > > total call time, to the extent that it's having a greater impact on > > performance than user interaction). And this is using SGMLOP for > > parsing -- I dread to think what it would be like with a slower > > parser. Anyone (Fredrik?) got any good ideas for tackling this > > problem? > > CORBA. Or TCP/IP directly. I know that isn't really the answer you're > looking for - but there is an overhead parsing XML, and that can't go away. > >From what I read at SGMLOP's site I doub't that you can get much faster - > because speed comes with sacrificing standard compliancy, which it already > seems to do. > > Regards, > > Diez > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list > -- Gregory Piñero Chief Innovation Officer Blended Technologies (www.blendedtechnologies.com) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
