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    Back out previous revision that changed the XML output format to RPC · f8ed2e3b
    Leigh B. Stoller authored
    format instead of plain old well formed XML. Note this change does not
    affect the parser in any way; the parser continues to spit out its own
    brand of XML, and xmlconvert treats that special when it reads it.
    
    The XML I spit out now is better formed and makes more sense when you
    look at it. It also helps that its much faster to generate, and the
    resulting output is much smaller. For example:
    
    	time /usr/testbed/libexec/xmlconvert testbed jail-2440
    	real    2m54.229s
    	user    1m7.492s
    	sys     1m15.927s
    
    	time /usr/testbed/devel/stoller/libexec/xmlconvert testbed jail-2440
    	real    0m14.738s
    	user    0m5.755s
    	sys     0m5.156s
    
    	/tmp/bar*.xml
    	-rw-rw-r--  1 stoller  wheel  15595161 Jun  4 11:16 /tmp/rpc.xml
    	-rw-rw-r--  1 stoller  wheel   5285690 Jun  4 11:17 /tmp/plain.xml
    
    Thats for a big experiment. For a small experiment:
    
    	time /usr/testbed/libexec/xmlconvert testbed jail-416
    	real    0m9.346s
    	user    0m5.083s
    	sys     0m2.675s
    
    	time /usr/testbed/devel/stoller/libexec/xmlconvert testbed jail-416
    	real    0m2.751s
    	user    0m1.377s
    	sys     0m1.183s
    
    	ll /tmp/bar*.xml
    	-rw-rw-r--  1 stoller  wheel  3135518 Jun  4 11:19 /tmp/rpc.xml
    	-rw-rw-r--  1 stoller  wheel  1015745 Jun  4 11:19 /tmp/plain.xml
    
    As you can see, the RPC code is rather non-linear in its performance!
    
    Since this affects Tim and netlab-client, I have added an alternate
    XMLRPC routine called virtual_topology_xml() that returns the new format,
    since Tim will need to transition to this new format (parsing it into a
    Java data structure). The old format is left in the RPC server until that
    is done.
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