Just yesterday I have tried Tomcat 3.2.3 as http transport plug-in for Wasp and realized that it is very slow (more than 10 times slower than standalone Wasp).
Radovan Radovan Janecek VP, Engineering, Systinet (formerly Idoox) http://www.systinet.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Herreman, Christophe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, January 18, 2002 10:01 AM Subject: Performance of SOAP RPC ? > Hello, > > We are experiencing a problem using RPC; (Apache SOAP 2.2 + tomcat 4.01 + > 10Mbit ethernet LAN). > > When client and service are running on the same PC, a simple RPC call takes > about 25 msec for the roundtrip. > > On the LAN the same RPC call takes about 250 msec !!! > > Strangly, both CPUs are barely working at all (5%) and the network load is > low. > > We are keeping the HTTP connection open and are re-using the Call object and > we are using application scope objects on the server. > > Also we see that the SOAP messages are send in two packets: one for the > header and one for the enveloppe. > > Appearently, the server is responding fast enough. We suspect that HTTP is > to blame. > > Any ideas ? > > What is the normal performance we may expect for RPC call using SOAP? > > Thanks, > Chris. >
