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What are the Bottlenecks?

There are several places for bottlenecks in an HL7 interface:

• Network input/output via TCP/IP;
• Disk input/output for persistent queuing; and
• Transformation.

Chameleon is basically very fast, so unless you are running on a very small CPU, the chances are that the limiting factor will be your disc and network input/output operations.

The actual weighting for each of these sections will depend on the implementation of each part. The following sections will consider each area, what the pitfalls are and how to deal with them.