Performance issues (excessively slow)

Acrobat Professional is not running anywhere near as smoothly as one might expect, and I'm looking for a reason why.
I'm using a Pentium 4 2.4Ghz work computer, on Windows XP Home, version 2002 Service Pack 3, with 1Gb of ram and 55Gb free space. I've installed Acrobat Pro version 9.1.1.
When simply editing existing .pdf files as part of a catalogue, all I'm doing is copy&paste, drag&drop, insert image, and edit text. Nothing more. But even so, I'm seeing wait times of up to 30 seconds between clicks. After simply pasting a template into the file and dragging it into place, Acrobat freezes up for up to 30 seconds before I'm able to do anything more. Zooming in, something that involves only holding down a key and scrolling a mouse wheel, takes a minimum of 20 seconds.
I've managed to convince my employers to purchase a more powerful tower, but they need some idea of just how powerful it needs to be. This one is already twice as fast as the recommended system requirements, yet I'm having such trouble.
Or is there a way to solve this problem without upgrading?

Personally, I think 1 GB for XP is a minimal system---I don't care what the minimal system requirements are. Additionally, you probably have programs in the background that are taking up precious resources (minimally, you should have a firewall, virus protection, spyware protection, and the acrotray and who knows what else). This all takes precious resources that Acrobat and XP needs. Additionally, there is something very wrong if your workflow requires you to edit a pdf catlogue via copy & paste, drag and drop, and editing text. This is what most of us here consider extensive editing of a pdf file. All editing should whenever possible be done in the original program---NOT in Acrobat. Yes Acrobat provides the tools but they should be reserved for emergencies. Acrobat is not at DTP, graphics or WP program and should not be treated as such. i bet you will find going back to the original files will be much faster even if you though you need to regenerate the pdf files.

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(picture 1)
Disk Introduction
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(picture 2)
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(picture 3)
PPBM5 (Disk Test) Result (RAID LSI)
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(picture 5)
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(picture 6)
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-----Original Message-----
From: James Min [mailto:jminbrio.forte.com]
Sent: Thursday, March 30, 2000 2:50 PM
To: Sharma, Sandeep; Pyatetskiy, Alexander
Cc: sophiaforte.com; kenlforte.com; Tenerelli, Mike
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From: SASMITA, DANIAR
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To: Pyatetskiy, Alexander
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to Sybase. Same thing, just open cursor. No cursor declaration anywhere.==============================================
James Min
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Earthlink wrote:
Contrary to my understanding, the <font face="courier">with_pipeline</font> procedure runs 6 time slower than the legacy <font face="courier">no_pipeline</font> procedure. Am I missing something? Well, we're missing a lot here.
Like:
- a database version
- how did you test
- what data do you have, how is it distributed, indexed
and so on.
If you want to find out what's going on then use a TRACE with wait events.
All nessecary steps are explained in these threads:
HOW TO: Post a SQL statement tuning request - template posting
http://oracle-randolf.blogspot.com/2009/02/basic-sql-statement-performance.html
Another nice one is RUNSTATS:
http://asktom.oracle.com/pls/asktom/ASKTOM.download_file?p_file=6551378329289980701

Returning multiple values from a called tabular form(performance issue)

I hope someone can help with this.
I have a form that calls another form to display a multiple column tabular list of values(needs to allow for user sorting so could not use a LOV).
The user selects one or more records from the list by using check boxes. In order to detect the records selected I loop through the block looking for boxes checked off and return those records to the calling form via a PL/SQL table.
The form displaying the tabular list loads quickly(about 5000 records in the base table). However when I select one or more values from the table and return back to the calling form, it takes a while(about 3-4 minutes) to return to the called form with the selected values.
I guess it is going through the block(all 5000 records) looking for boxes checked off and that is what is causing the noticeable pause.
Is this normal given the data volumes I have or are there any other perhaps better techniques or tricks I could use to improve performance. I am using Forms6i.
Sorry for being so long-winded and thanks in advance for any help.

Try writing to your PL/SQL table when the user selects (or remove when deselect) by usuing a when-checkbox-changed trigger. This will eliminate the need for you top loop through a block with 5000 records and should improve your performance.
I am not aware of any performance issues with PL/SQL tables in forms, but if you still have slow performance try using a shared record-group instead. I have used these in the past for exactly the same thing and had no performance problems.
Hope this helps,
Candace Stover
Forms Product Management

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We are observing some performance issues in our application. We are Using weblogic 11g with Java6 on a windows 2003 server
The thread dumps indicate many threads are waiting in queue for the native file methods:
"[ACTIVE] ExecuteThread: '106' for queue: 'weblogic.kernel.Default (self-tuning)'" RUNNABLE
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     java.io.File.exists(Unknown Source)
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     weblogic.utils.classloaders.ClasspathClassFinder.getSourcesInternal(ClasspathClassFinder.java:347)
     weblogic.utils.classloaders.ClasspathClassFinder.getSource(ClasspathClassFinder.java:316)
     weblogic.application.io.ManifestFinder.getSource(ManifestFinder.java:75)
     weblogic.utils.classloaders.MultiClassFinder.getSource(MultiClassFinder.java:67)
     weblogic.application.utils.CompositeWebAppFinder.getSource(CompositeWebAppFinder.java:71)
     weblogic.utils.classloaders.MultiClassFinder.getSource(MultiClassFinder.java:67)
     weblogic.utils.classloaders.MultiClassFinder.getSource(MultiClassFinder.java:67)
     weblogic.utils.classloaders.CodeGenClassFinder.getSource(CodeGenClassFinder.java:33)
     weblogic.utils.classloaders.GenericClassLoader.findResource(GenericClassLoader.java:210)
     weblogic.utils.classloaders.GenericClassLoader.getResourceInternal(GenericClassLoader.java:160)
     weblogic.utils.classloaders.GenericClassLoader.getResource(GenericClassLoader.java:182)
     java.lang.ClassLoader.getResourceAsStream(Unknown Source)
     javax.xml.parsers.SecuritySupport$4.run(Unknown Source)
     java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
     javax.xml.parsers.SecuritySupport.getResourceAsStream(Unknown Source)
     javax.xml.parsers.FactoryFinder.findJarServiceProvider(Unknown Source)
     javax.xml.parsers.FactoryFinder.find(Unknown Source)
     javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance(Unknown Source)
     org.ajax4jsf.context.ResponseWriterContentHandler.<init>(ResponseWriterContentHandler.java:48)
     org.ajax4jsf.context.ViewResources$HeadResponseWriter.<init>(ViewResources.java:259)
     org.ajax4jsf.context.ViewResources.processHeadResources(ViewResources.java:445)
     org.ajax4jsf.application.AjaxViewHandler.renderView(AjaxViewHandler.java:193)
     org.apache.myfaces.lifecycle.RenderResponseExecutor.execute(RenderResponseExecutor.java:41)
     org.apache.myfaces.lifecycle.LifecycleImpl.render(LifecycleImpl.java:140)
On googling this seems to be an issue with java file handling on windows servers and I couldn't find a solution yet. Any recommendation or pointer is appreciated

Hi shubhu,
I just analyzed your partial Thread Dump data, the problem is that the ajax4jsf framework ResponseWriterContentHandler triggers internally a new instance of the DocumentBuilderFactory; every time; triggering heavy IO contention because of Class loader / JAR file search operations.
Too many of these IO operations under heavy load will create excessive contention and severe performance degradation; regardless of the OS you are running your JVM on.
Please review the link below and see if this is related to your problem.. This is a known issue in JBOSS JIRA when using RichFaces / ajaxJSF.
https://issues.jboss.org/browse/JBPAPP-6166
Regards,
P-H
http://javaeesupportpatterns.blogspot.com/

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