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New Alfresco fresh Installations with very poor performance

irvinloc — Fri, 14 Feb 2014 09:09:17 GMT

Hi all,I'm a newcomer to Alfresco. I need some kind of solution of this kind to support document management for my company. I love Alfresco's features versioning documents, searching, customizations, team working, workflows, etc but i'm dissapointed with the overall performance I've experienced (sur

Re: New Alfresco fresh Installations with very poor performance

irvinloc — Fri, 14 Feb 2014 09:11:07 GMT

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Re: New Alfresco fresh Installations with very poor performance

mrogers — Fri, 14 Feb 2014 13:40:00 GMT

Don't test anything except 4.2.e.

A few minutes start up time is normal especially for the first time alfresco is run which is initializing the databases.

When developing you shouldn't need to restart tomcat at all.   For example if you are developing in share then stick it on its own tomcat so you don't restart the repo each time. And if you are developing alfresco repository code then "hot deploy code.

-Office documents preview is erratic - that's not expected.
-After several days on without user activity, the system is unstable and error prone. I have to reinitialize to continue using it - That's not right either.
-search is erratic: some times it runs ok, some times it don't find anything (not even searching by document title) - or that.

-Is anything wrong with my hardware?    Its unlikely but possible
-Is anything wrong with the default installation bundles? Its tuned for a small company, you may want to configure more resources
-Is Enterprise version better than Community version in user experience / performance?   Should be fairly similar.
-Any ideas on virtualized environment performance? Don't make the JVM page in and out.    Make sure there's enough RAM.   Beware of what's running on the other virtual instances.

May be worth checking your network settings and whether there's anything else hogging resources.

Re: New Alfresco fresh Installations with very poor performance

mrogers — Fri, 14 Feb 2014 13:40:02 GMT

Re: New Alfresco fresh Installations with very poor performance

irvinloc — Mon, 17 Feb 2014 23:31:05 GMT

Thanks, mrogers,
Regarding other virtual instances, the virtual machine in which runs Alfresco is the only VM in the hypervisor (I'm switching between Windows Server 2008 / Ubuntu Server 12.04, but only one of them is started at a certain time). All server resources given to it.
I suspect the bottleneck may be the hard drive performance (3x1TB in RAID 3) , because CPU and RAM are not reaching high levels of use.
Perhaps I'm expecting too much, but when I see videos, from Alfresco Summits mainly, I envy the performance they achieve.

I have to dig JVM / multi tomcat environments as per your suggestions,

Many thanks once again,

Re: New Alfresco fresh Installations with very poor performance

mrogers — Tue, 18 Feb 2014 11:21:00 GMT

The other thing you may be suffering from is the database needing to gather stats. Especially if you are just spinning up an instance and testing it. Postgress does this automatically overnight but if you are shutting down the VM or just spinning up a new instance and loading with data then database can require a little TLC.