[Building Sakai] T&Q reaction times?

[Steve Swinsburg]

Hi David,

Which version of Sakai are you using?

cheers,
Steve

On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 7:10 PM, David Minugh <David.Minugh at english.su.se>wrote:

>  I am experiencing incredibly slow reaction times for the T&Q function,
> and am wondering whether this is a local configuration problem or just the
> glacial speed of T&Q:****
>
> ** **
>
> As a normal site administrator (not a Sakai administrator), I have created
> a 160-item test drawing on 24 different question data bases of about 200
> items each. The test has actually been administered to our students, and
> it’s time for a retake. I clone the test, and change the settings (name,
> release date, etc.), then click on “Publish”. After about 5 minutes, the
> intermediate warning screen appears (confirm publication? Etc). I click on
> “Publish”, and 10 minutes later Firefox has timed out my request. I restart
> the process by requesting to publish the test, and am now told that I
> cannot have two tests with the same name, which suggests that somewhere in
> the bowels of the program, the original request is still being processed.*
> ***
>
> ** **
>
>    I have been able to clone the test and alter the settings before, so
> it’s not impossible, but with a 400-student population, all these sorts of
> T&Q requests are consistently processed in the 5-10 min range, including
> displaying statistics and actual results. Much smaller tests (10-item
> range, but with a 200-300 student population) go considerably faster, which
> suggests to me that a request to e.g. change a setting parameter somehow
> requires processing of the whole test, rather than just the parameter,
> which shouldn’t take more than a fraction of a second.****
>
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>
>    Do these reaction times sound familiar to developers who’ve worked on
> T&Q? Right now, I’ve again requested the test to be published, and am up to
> 5 minutes’ waiting time and counting. Needless to say, this is not
> encouraging for use of T&Q, which otherwise works well. For my money, T&Q
> is several years behind the rest of SAKAI in user-friendliness and
> performance. ****
>
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>
>    7 minutes and counting…****
>
>     ****
>
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