[Portfolio] [Building Sakai] large sakai sites - 10,000k+

[Mathieu Plourde]

In addition to this question about course and project sites, anyone tried
deploying a portfolio site with a large user base? All freshmen using a
matrix to track general education goals, for instance (~6K users)?

Mathieu
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On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 4:41 AM, Adam Marshall
<adam.marshall at oucs.ox.ac.uk>wrote:

> This is what i've collated over the years:
>
> Is there a limit to the number of site participants?
>
> A: In theory there is a limit. Some tools start to work slowly with a large
> number of users. We did an experiment and added 6,500 users to site which
> contained Wiki, Announcements, Mailtool, Resources, Web Content and Home,
> and everything seemed to work just fine. If you do have a large number of
> participants, then it is worth checking the performance before getting
> students to use it!
>
> The University of Cape Town have a site with 30,000 users and confirm that
> the following tools are fine: Announcements, Resources, Chat, Polls, Forums,
> Evaluation System, Site Info (though slow).
>
> Valencia have sites with 2000+ users and found performance issues with
> Dropbox, grading assignments, Markbook.
>
> Texas State have a site with 1,300 users and confirm that in addition to
> the above they have no problems with Forums. Tests and Quizzes (which we
> don't offer here) does not work very well.
>
> At Unisa (University of South Africa) there are sites with over 1000
> members, they report problems with the following tools:
>
>    * Blogger - slow for large classes; get problems/bugs - this tool has
> been withdrawn now
>    * Dropbox - finding a specific box without a search on the page or
> re-ordering option
>    * Sign up - lecturers' view is slow with the view of participants
>    * Site Info - default view extract all participants; slow for adding new
> participants on large sites
>    * Sitestats - resources view; reports for many events
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: sakai-dev-bounces at collab.sakaiproject.org [mailto:
> sakai-dev-bounces at collab.sakaiproject.org] On Behalf Of John Bush
> Sent: 08 February 2011 05:04
> To: Sakai-Dev
> Subject: [Building Sakai] large sakai sites - 10,000k+
>
> Wasn't there a conference over last few years that talked about
> strategies for dealing with sites that have a large site memberships?
> Google is coming up empty, but I remember something.
>
> --
> John Bush
> 602-490-0470
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