Manager getting slower and slower.

I’ve noticed as my document count is rising, that my manager is getting slower and slower, sometimes taking more than a minute to save a document.

Is it normal for the manager to get bogged down after awhile?

The site itself seems fine.

Check the size of the manager event log, this can get very large during development or with sites that with lots of content editors.

I recently cleared the log in Reports/System Events .. Is the manager log something else?

Manager Actions is the manager log I am referring to. You need to do a query to see the results (just press the search button to see all entries) and then there is a command to clear.

Did that, edited a document and it took about 62secs to save.

Opening a document to edit it is normally pretty quick, but then saving just crawls. Even if i don’t even make a change, just open and save..

I’ve got about 4100 documents. I know this could’ve been an issue in older versions, and I don’t know if it’s still an issue with 0.9.6.

4100 is pushing it. What is your hosting environment?

Two dedicated servers set up in load balancing. LAMP (PHP 4.3, Mysql 4.1.1.8)

My other modx sites work great.. but they don’t come close to this one in amount of documents..

What is the size of your assets/cache/siteCache.idx.php file? And how are you handling the caching with load balancing?

The siteCache.idx.php file is a smidge over a meg, 1,041,018b to be precise.

I’m not sure how the load balancing is done, these are managed servers, and we don’t configure them ourselves.

I know that I have the same problem on my staging environment which is a single server, so I don’t believe the load balance is the issue.. (i could be wrong)

Quote from: ganeshXL at Jul 31, 2008, 12:29 PM

Clear the cache from time to time (modx, not browser) - or disable caching altogether.

I think that will just cause additional slowness on the front-end...

Quote from: silentcry at Jul 31, 2008, 12:16 PM

The siteCache.idx.php file is a smidge over a meg, 1,041,018b to be precise.

I’m not sure how the load balancing is done, these are managed servers, and we don’t configure them ourselves.

I know that I have the same problem on my staging environment which is a single server, so I don’t believe the load balance is the issue.. (i could be wrong)

That’s obviously a fairly large file and the more documents you add the bigger it’s going to get. There are other techniques such as including snippets from external files that can help reduce this file’s size significantly. That’s really the only thing that is going to help, though I would think dedicated servers would be able to handle it. However, if this is on a shared file system connected to two webservers, writing to the shared mount is going to be a larger bottleneck than even a single server would experience.