topic Re: CIFS - browsing large directories in Alfresco Archive

CIFS - browsing large directories

drope — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 15:49:33 GMT

Hello,Whenever I try to browse a directory that has 1000+ items using CIFS, Alfresco server takes too long to load all the data (about 10 seconds). First thing I tried was to increase Java Heap to 1Gb (set JAVA_OPTS=-Xms512m -Xmx1024m -Xss64k -server). Then I turned the ehcache debug on and did som

Re: CIFS - browsing large directories

drope — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 17:49:19 GMT

I'm wondering if no one else have spaces with a large number of documents.

Any reply woul be appreciated. Even something like "Alfresco CIFS implementation is not suposed to handle that well".

Thanks again,
Pedro Son

Re: CIFS - browsing large directories

dgenard — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 11:02:35 GMT

Hi, we've the same issue.

Using Windows Explorer via CIFS, opening a space containing 650 documents takes about 20 secs.
CPU power is used mainly by tomcat.
So, unfortunately, it's seems to be a common behaviour.
Did you finally manage to improve the speed ?

Denis

Re: CIFS - browsing large directories

tim-erwin — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 12:29:32 GMT

Same here. On a QuadCore with 4GB (that alfresco may use) and two fast hard drives (one for the repository and one for the db) it takes more than 30secs for a folder with around 3000 files. The only way - I guess - is to split the folders up. Have several smaller ones. I heard a number of 500 being the limit for acceptable speed.

Performance is an aspect of alfresco that I'm a bit disappointed of, although the webclient is pretty fast (using the native API and mechanisms to reduce the amount of data read).

Tim