topic Re: Writing contents to a node takes very long time in Alfresco Archive

Writing contents to a node takes very long time

santosh — Tue, 30 May 2006 11:17:00 GMT

Hi,I am trying to create a new content node and writing data from a file which is arond 2 MB size.While testing I found that WebServiceFactory.getContentService().write() call takes around 10 sec to return.The code I am using is as follows.I have added the System.out to get the timimgs of each call.

Re: Writing contents to a node takes very long time

kevinr — Tue, 30 May 2006 13:14:50 GMT

File content in Alfresco is already stored on the filesystem - only meta-data is stored in the database. This suggests you have a different problem! Do normal network transfers happen quickly with other programs? 10sec for a 2MB file sounds very high indeed. We'll try a default Alfresco setup here and profile it to check that it's not some issue with the web-services API, but it would be great if you can check that it's nothing wierd on your setup also (are you saving content to network drives? Are the files being virus scanned all the time? - that kind of thing…)

Thanks,

Kevin

Re: Writing contents to a node takes very long time

santosh — Tue, 30 May 2006 13:34:44 GMT

Hi,

I don't have issues with antivirus or file scanning.
I would check my environment once again and get back to you.

Thanks and regards,

Santosh

Re: Writing contents to a node takes very long time

sergio — Tue, 28 Nov 2006 16:20:30 GMT

Hi all.

The same problem with upload/write a file to the repository. Alfresco spends too much time to complete the task.

In addition, I am running Alfresco on my pc, so I am sure I don't have any network problem.

Any suggestion?

Best regards,

Sergio

Re: Writing contents to a node takes very long time

benjamin_doughe — Thu, 04 Jan 2007 15:17:56 GMT

Was this ever resolved?

I am getting long update/write times when using the webservices api.

Thanks,
Ben.

Re: Writing contents to a node takes very long time

sergio — Thu, 04 Jan 2007 15:56:42 GMT

No, unfortunately.

The Alfresco team did not give any clear answer for this problem.

Re: Writing contents to a node takes very long time

marcosvasousa — Tue, 04 Dec 2012 11:59:37 GMT

I have same issue in production envirorment.
Line "UpdateResult[] result = WebServiceFactory.getRepositoryService().update(cml);" is very slow on first creation of document.

Re: Writing contents to a node takes very long time

mrogers — Fri, 07 Dec 2012 12:07:39 GMT

As with the beginnings of this thread, there's not enough information to diagnose a problem, either in your recent posting or earlier.

Writing content is normally a fast operation since its relatively simple. There could be a problem writing to disk, for example the disk is remote over a slow network or perhaps it is nearing being full, disks struggle as they run out of room. Next problem is lack of ram or other resource on the alfresco server. SOAP web services are prone to RAM problems due to the need to keep everything in memory. Next problem is a slow connection to alfresco.

That said one of the features of alfresco 4 is to remove indexing from transaction, which will speed up uploads. (But it won't account for 10 seconds).

Its also worth mentioning that these "old" web services are deprecated with CMIS being the preferred web service interface.

Re: Writing contents to a node takes very long time

marcosvasousa — Mon, 07 Jan 2013 14:55:05 GMT

Please see https://forums.alfresco.com/en/viewtopic.php?f=45&t=47292&p=141265#p141265
There is detailed information, alfresco 3 and 4.

Re: Writing contents to a node takes very long time

marcosvasousa — Wed, 09 Jan 2013 08:27:24 GMT

[SOLVED]
We tested "> Upgrade to Alfresco 3.4" so we didn't found problems (no code upgrade/change is needed) and after 700 documents in history the time is below 200 ms.
So, we are now Upgranding to Alfresco 3.4.