topic Re: Very slow response adding users in Alfresco Archive

Very slow response adding users

rjohnson — Thu, 30 Aug 2012 10:22:03 GMT

I'm using 4.0a. When the installation was "new" with only a handful of sites adding and editing user details was fast. I have set up a test installation with about 3,000 sites and adding and editing users is painfully slow and consumes huge amounts of server resource.The test server is virtualised b

Re: Very slow response adding users

loftux — Mon, 03 Sep 2012 05:31:59 GMT

When you create a site, Alfresco creates 5 groups (used for the invite roles) for each site, so with 3000 sites you have, well you can do the math, many groups
This may be why you see such slow response.
I think there has been some optimizations for this done in later versions, for this any many other bug fixes I would upgrade to 4.0.e

Re: Very slow response adding users

loftux — Mon, 03 Sep 2012 05:58:47 GMT

Also, I think that you may not necessarily end up with the same amount of sites as in Sharepoint. Dont create sites that only has a few documents in them, then they could just live within a folder of an existing site. Limit who can create site, and create some governance procedure for sites. For example, if you need a site with just a limited number of docs to share with external users for a specific project, once the project is close, migrate the documents into an existing site and delete that project site.

Again about optimization, Alfresco has probably done a lot in this regard to support its Cloud solution. So if you really need to support this many sites, maybe have a look at the enterprise version. Download a test version of enterprise and test http://www.alfresco.com/products/enterprise/trial. Optimization hopefully will reach Community, if you are just experimenting you can try the nightly http://dev.alfresco.com/downloads/nightly/dist/