I'm using Nhibernate as the OR/M tool for an asp.net application and the startup performance is really frustrating. Part of the problem is definitely me in my lack of understanding but I've tried a fair bit (understanding is definitely improving) and am still getting nowhere.
Currently ANTS profiler has that the Configure() takes 13-18 seconds and the BuildSessionFActory() as taking about 5 seconds. From what i've read, these times might actually be pretty good, but they were generally talking about hundreds upon hundreds of mapped entities...this project only has 10.
I've combined all the mapping files into a single hbm mapping file and this did improve things but only down to the times mentioned above...
I guess, are there any "Traps for young players" that are regularly missed...obvious "I did this/have you enabled that/exclude file x/mark file y as z" etc...
I'll try the serialize the configuration thing to avoid the Configure() stage, but I feel that part shouldn't be that long for that amount of entities and so would essentially be hiding a current problem...
I will post source code or configuration if necessary, but I'm not sure what to put in really...
thanks heaps!
edit (more info)
I'll also add that once this is completed, each page is extremely quick...
configuration code- hibernate.cfg.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<configuration>
<configSections>
<section name="hibernate-configuration"
type="NHibernate.Cfg.ConfigurationSectionHandler, NHibernate" />
</configSections>
<hibernate-configuration xmlns="urn:nhibernate-configuration-2.2">
<session-factory>
<property name="dialect">NHibernate.Dialect.MsSql2005Dialect</property>
<property name="connection.provider">NHibernate.Connection.DriverConnectionProvider</property>
<property name="connection.driver_class">NHibernate.Driver.SqlClientDriver</property>
<property name="connection.connection_string_name">MyAppDEV</property>
<property name="cache.provider_class">NHibernate.Caches.SysCache.SysCacheProvider, NHibernate.Caches.SysCache</property>
<property name="cache.use_second_level_cache">true</property>
<property name="show_sql">false</property>
<property name="proxyfactory.factory_class">NHibernate.ByteCode.Castle.ProxyFactoryFactory, NHibernate.ByteCode.Castle</property>
<property name="current_session_context_class">managed_web</property>
<mapping assembly="MyApp.Domain"/>
</session-factory>
</hibernate-configuration>
</configuration>
My SessionManager class which is bound and unbound in a HttpModule for each request
Imports NHibernate
Imports NHibernate.Cfg
Public Class SessionManager
Private ReadOnly _sessionFactory As ISessionFactory
Public Shared ReadOnly Property SessionFactory() As ISessionFactory
Get
Return Instance._sessionFactory
End Get
End Property
Private Function GetSessionFactory() As ISessionFactory
Return _sessionFactory
End Function
Public Shared ReadOnly Property Instance() As SessionManager
Get
Return NestedSessionManager.theSessionManager
End Get
End Property
Public Shared Function OpenSession() As ISession
Return Instance.GetSessionFactory().OpenSession()
End Function
Public Shared ReadOnly Property CurrentSession() As ISession
Get
Return Instance.GetSessionFactory().GetCurrentSession()
End Get
End Property
Private Sub New()
Dim configuration As Configuration = New Configuration().Configure()
_sessionFactory = configuration.BuildSessionFactory()
End Sub
Private Class NestedSessionManager
Friend Shared ReadOnly theSessionManager As New SessionManager()
End Class
End Class
edit 2 (log4net results)
will post bits that have a portion of time between them and will cut out the rest...
2010-03-30 23:29:40,898 [4] INFO NHibernate.Cfg.Environment [(null)] - Using reflection optimizer
2010-03-30 23:29:42,481 [4] DEBUG NHibernate.Cfg.Configuration [(null)] - dialect=NHibernate.Dialect.MsSql2005Dialect
...
2010-03-30 23:29:42,501 [4] INFO NHibernate.Cfg.Configuration [(null)] - Mapping resource: MyApp.Domain.Mappings.hbm.xml
2010-03-30 23:29:43,342 [4] INFO NHibernate.Dialect.Dialect [(null)] - Using dialect: NHibernate.Dialect.MsSql2005Dialect
2010-03-30 23:29:50,462 [4] INFO NHibernate.Cfg.XmlHbmBinding.Binder [(null)] - Mapping class:
...
2010-03-30 23:29:51,353 [4] DEBUG NHibernate.Connection.DriverConnectionProvider [(null)] - Obtaining IDbConnection from Driver
2010-03-30 23:29:53,136 [4] DEBUG NHibernate.Connection.ConnectionProvider [(null)] - Closing connection
