https://jira.jboss.org/jira/browse/JBDEPLOY-230

I've added a stress test:

http://anonsvn.jboss.org/repos/jbossas/projects/reloaded/trunk/vdf-bootstrap-minimal/src/test/java/DeployersOrderingStressUnitTest.java

/**
    * Stress test to add the specified number of deployers to MC, and 
    * note the amount of time taken
    */
   void stressAddingDeployers(final int numDeployers) throws Throwable
   {
      // Get the MainDeployer
      final Kernel kernel = server.getKernel();
      MainDeployer mainDeployer = (MainDeployer) kernel.getController().getInstalledContext("MainDeployer").getTarget();
      TestCase.assertNotNull(MainDeployer.class.getName() + " instance was not installed into MC", mainDeployer);

      // Add Deployers
      final long start = System.currentTimeMillis();
      for (int i = 0; i < numDeployers; i++)
      {
         // Install a deployer
         final Deployer deployer = new AbstractDeployer()
         {

            @Override
            public void deploy(final DeploymentUnit unit) throws DeploymentException
            {
               //NOOP            
            }
         };
         final String deployerName = deployer.getClass().getSimpleName() + numDeployers + "-" + i;
         final BeanMetaDataBuilder bmdb = BeanMetaDataBuilder
               .createBuilder(deployerName, deployer.getClass().getName());
         kernel.getController().install(bmdb.getBeanMetaData(), deployer);

      }
      final long total = System.currentTimeMillis() - start;
      log.info("Adding " + numDeployers + " deployer(s) took " + total + "ms");

   }

Output is:

11:02:34,737 INFO  [MainDeployerViaBootstrapUnitTest] Adding 1 deployer(s) took 6ms
11:02:35,010 INFO  [MainDeployerViaBootstrapUnitTest] Adding 10 deployer(s) took 83ms
11:02:35,305 INFO  [MainDeployerViaBootstrapUnitTest] Adding 20 deployer(s) took 136ms
11:02:35,918 INFO  [MainDeployerViaBootstrapUnitTest] Adding 30 deployer(s) took 459ms
11:02:37,268 INFO  [MainDeployerViaBootstrapUnitTest] Adding 40 deployer(s) took 1088ms
11:02:41,033 INFO  [MainDeployerViaBootstrapUnitTest] Adding 50 deployer(s) took 3516ms
11:02:50,794 INFO  [MainDeployerViaBootstrapUnitTest] Adding 60 deployer(s) took 9616ms
11:03:13,712 INFO  [MainDeployerViaBootstrapUnitTest] Adding 70 deployer(s) took 22740ms
11:04:04,886 INFO  [MainDeployerViaBootstrapUnitTest] Adding 80 deployer(s) took 50835ms
11:05:44,774 INFO  [MainDeployerViaBootstrapUnitTest] Adding 90 deployer(s) took 99716ms
11:08:45,736 INFO  [MainDeployerViaBootstrapUnitTest] Adding 100 deployer(s) took 180761ms

To run, check out the project and run under JDK6.  I've also provided a standalone (Main) test harness to ease the process of attaching a debugger.  The build will place all runtime libs under target/dependencies (useful for adding to the profiler ClassPath).

S,

ALR