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Alfresco Performance and Use

athir_gillani — Sat, 28 Jun 2014 10:01:05 GMT

Dear All,Please guide me on the following points. I have been facing performance issues on production system.1. Can I use Alfresco to content management on my production systems. For example, I have a huge number property files, icons, backgrounds and javascript and css files. My system has a huge l

Re: Alfresco Performance and Use

mrogers — Sat, 28 Jun 2014 21:30:00 GMT

Yes just give alfresco a call.   The consultants will help.

Yes alfresco is suited to managing content.   That's what it does and there are hundreds of thousands of sites doing it.

With Wcm it may be that files like CSS, JavaScript and icons can and should be cached in front of alfresco.   That's fairly commonly done.

Re: Alfresco Performance and Use

athir_gillani — Sat, 28 Jun 2014 22:50:08 GMT

Thanks a lot for your answer.

So, I now understand that Alfresco is suitable for content management, which has high demand of availability. But currently the time to access one resource is too high. How can I configure Alfresco for best performance, share some document if there are any available. There are a lot of scheduled jobs in alfresco, please share with me some document that I can use to optimize for performance. I want to keep the scheduled jobs which are required and remove the rest of them.

We already have a cache mechanism enabled over it. Can you suggest me what would be an appropriate time for caching a resource. Currently I have configured it to 5 minutes. I am planning to raise it to at least 1 hour. I understand that Alfresco do not support an inbuilt cache, can I configure cache over Alfresco such that new resource is requested and cached as soon as a resource is updated.

Can you please elaborate the following questions also:
1. What is your opinion about multiple Alfresco installed on multiple servers, while only one database server supporting it. What is exactly saved in the database, is it only the index or also the physical files saved in the database.

Re: Alfresco Performance and Use

mrogers — Sun, 29 Jun 2014 14:52:00 GMT

I doubt it's worth worrying about the scheduled jobs have you got any specific concerns?

Why is the time to access one resource too high. Do you have figures ?

For stuff that doesn't change (e.g CSS or js). Cache it for a long time or until your cache is full. Some Urls cant be cached. But many, even the content urls can be.

A cluster of eight alfresco servers is a huge install. You would probably be better off starting with say 3 instances and then tuning those up. Once that's going well then add more cluster nodes if that's what your load requires.