Document batch-upload

[mikechenosky]

Hi, does Alfresco support batch-upload of documents to its document library?
if so, how?
If not, can someone suggest how to get around it?
Thanks,
mike

[mikeh]

It's unlikely the network is ever going to be the limiting factor. What sort of server are you running Alfresco on? Also what database. Is the database local?

Alfresco scales very well, but you need to make sure you've got the hardware to match. http://www.alfresco.com/media/releases/2008/01/unisys-benchmark/

Did you see this wiki ariticle? http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/JVM_Tuning

Thanks,
Mike

[sergisat]

I have some problems too, I tested with Alfresco3Stable and with new Alfresco 3.2 in a vmware esx 3.5 host with 128GB RAM and the storage is stored in NetApp filer.

The virtual machine configuration is 4vcpu and 16Gb RAM with Centos 5.3 x86_64 / Ubuntu server 9.04 x86_64.
My database is Mysql 5.1.36 Community in another virtual machine with 4vcpu and 16Gb RAM in Centos 5.3 x86_64 .

My jvm configuration line is:
JAVA_OPTS="$JAVA_OPTS -XX:NewRatio=2 -server -Xcomp -Xbatch -Xss1024K -Xms2G -Xmx2G -XX:NewSize=1G -XX:+UseConcMarkSweepGC -XX:+CMSIncre
mentalMode -XX:MaxPermSize=256M -XX:CMSInitiatingOccupancyFraction=80"

Alfresco is slowly copying files over CIFS/FTP and more slowly deleting files over Alfresco Explorer.

[mrogers]

Is your alfresco running well in vmware?

Have you seen this thread http://forums.alfresco.com/en/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=19990&p=66193&hilit=vmware#p66193

Have you installed the Microsoft loopback adapter?

[sergisat]

I dont use Microsoft operating system for alfresco, I installed in Centos 5.3 and in Ubuntu Server 9.04.

Alfresco is working slowly in uploads/deleting files and if I explore nodes with 1500 elements is slowly too. I have folders in alfresco with 1500 elements and is more slowly to see. If folder have around 100 elements is more fast.

[loftux]

@sergisat
Maybe you can try to change the Batch size for indexing to defer the indexing. See http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Full-Text_Search_Configuration
Are you storing the index on the NetApp? I do not know how fast a NetApp is compared to local disk, but the index storage location needs to be on a fast disk.
Have you looked at the mysql load? As you probably know  :wink: Alfresco also needs to do db updates to store a file, maybe you have the bottle-neck there? Or the communcation in between.
Your hardware for both Alfresco tomcat and the db server looks well sized, looks like it should be able to handle this load (such as indexing while saving).

[usuf]

I am having the same problem when uploading a directory with multiple files through webdav (painfully slow on a local Alf & local DB) . Has anyone found a way to speed this up?