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High memory usage with Saxon/C + PHP

Added by Alf Eaton over 4 years ago. Updated over 4 years ago.

Status:
Closed
Priority:
Normal
Category:
JET
Start date:
2019-08-27
Due date:
% Done:

100%

Estimated time:
Found in version:
1.1.2
Fixed in version:
1.2.0
Platforms:

Description

I'm using a large XSL file (see attached, generated from Schematron rules) to process an XML file, and finding that the PHP extension is using 10x the amount of memory that Saxon uses to process the same file in Java.

When running the conversion with regular Saxon-HE on the command line, the memory usage of the Java process reaches 400MB and the processing takes ~20s.

When running the same conversion via Saxon-C as a PHP extension (using the patched catalog-aware files from https://saxonica.plan.io/issues/4274), the memory usage of the Apache instance reaches 4GB and the processing takes ~40s.

While there are obviously optimisations that can be made to the generated XSL to improve processing times, is it expected that the memory usage would be so much higher in the PHP extension?


Files

generated.xsl (1.27 MB) generated.xsl Alf Eaton, 2019-08-29 09:14
input.xml (234 KB) input.xml Alf Eaton, 2019-08-29 09:17
Actions #1

Updated by O'Neil Delpratt over 4 years ago

  • Assignee set to O'Neil Delpratt

Thanks for reporting your issue. To help in the investigation please can you supply us your PHP script you use or a snippet of it.

Thanks

Actions #2

Updated by Alf Eaton over 4 years ago

Here's a PHP snippet, it's quite simple:

    $saxonProcessor = new Saxon\SaxonProcessor();

    $catalog = getenv('XML_CATALOG_FILES');
    $saxonProcessor->setCatalog($catalog, true);

    $processor = $saxonProcessor->newXsltProcessor();
    $processor->setSourceFromFile($_FILES['xml']['tmp_name']);
    $processor->compileFromFile(__DIR__ . '/generated.xsl');
    $result = $processor->transformToString();

I haven't yet tried to reproduce this by running the PHP script on the command line, only as a web service in Apache.

Actions #3

Updated by O'Neil Delpratt over 4 years ago

hi,

I am having trouble running the transformation. The input.xml file seems to have dependencies. Such as the reference to JATS-archivearticle1.dtd. I will download this file too.

Actions #4

Updated by Alf Eaton over 4 years ago

Apologies for not yet providing a complete repository for reproducing the issue - I can try to put one together in the next few days.

If you do want to try using the DTDs, you can download https://github.com/JATS4R/jats-dtds/archive/master.zip and point the catalog resolver to schema/catalog.xml in the unzipped archive.

Actions #5

Updated by O'Neil Delpratt over 4 years ago

Thanks. I have now got it to run.

Saxon on Java 9.9.1.4: 16 seconds

Saxon/C 1.1.2: PHP command-line takes 26 seconds.

Saxon/C 1.2.0 (pre-release): PHP on the command-line takes around 23 seconds.

Saxon/C 1.1 or 1.2 in the browser: Terminated maximum execution time 30 seconds for PHP exceeded.

Performance issues are sometimes difficult to get to the bottom of the cause. The memory should not blow up on Saxon/C as it does, maybe there are hotspots in the stylesheet which is causing the memory problem. I am investigating it further.

Actions #6

Updated by O'Neil Delpratt over 4 years ago

Update:

I managed to run the PHP script in the browser using a pre-release of Saxon/C on Excelsior JET 15.3 (MP1) enterprise which shows some improvements with the running time and memory. We are now turning our attentions to the profiling of the memory usage.

Actions #7

Updated by O'Neil Delpratt over 4 years ago

  • Tracker changed from Support to Bug
  • Category set to JET
  • Status changed from New to Resolved
  • Priority changed from Low to Normal
  • Found in version set to 1.1.2

As mentioned in comment #6, there seems to be an issue with how Excelsior Jet 15.3 professional is handling the heap memory and the garbage collection.

The latest release of Excelsior Jet 15.3 (MP1) Enterprise, which will be used in Saxon/C 1.2 shows much better memory management of the heap and the GC

Details of experiment (command-line only): Java: Final memory used 841MB, Time: 33 seconds

Jet XJava (before optimizations): Memory goes over 2GB before final GC state of 255MB. Time= 1 minute, 21seconds

Jet 15.3 (MP1) Enterprise (with optimizations): Final memory 95MB, memory does go up to 600MB during transformation. Time: 49 seconds The memory used with the supplied stylesheet and document goes up to 2GB on my local machine.

Therefore the latest Jet resolves this issue, which will be available in the next major release of Saxon/C.

Marking this bug issue as resolved.

Actions #8

Updated by O'Neil Delpratt over 4 years ago

  • Status changed from Resolved to Closed
  • % Done changed from 0 to 100
  • Fixed in version set to 1.2.0

Big fix applied in the Saxon/C 1.2.0 release.

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