[Building Sakai] Slow forum on sites with large participant list - Sakai CLE 2.8

[Bryan Holladay]

If you don't use the synoptic tool at all, then this would be a good
solution.


On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 11:09 AM, Curtis Van-Osch <curtis.van-osch at hec.ca>wrote:

> **
> Hello,
>
> As some of you may know, we launched a MOOC course here at HEC Montréal
> using Sakai CLE 2.8 (see www.EDUlib.hec.ca )<https://edulib.hec.ca/portal>.
> Our course sites have around 3000 participants, and this appears to be
> causing performance issues with the forum. Posting a new message takes
> somewhere between 45 and 60 seconds.
>
> It appears that the problem is that the system loops through all users of
> a site when updating the Synoptic tool information. We don't use the
> Synoptic tool within our course and we found that the following code
> changes in *org.sakaiproject.tool.messageforums.DiscussionForumTool*resolves our problem:
>
>    - *incrementSynopticToolInfo()* body is commented so that the function
>    doesn't do any processing.
>    - *needToUpdateSynopticOnForumSave()* always  return false;
>
> Do you see any risks if we implement theses changes to our production
> environnement?
>
> Thanks in advance for any information you can provide us.
> --
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>  Curtis Van Osch
> Analyste-Programmeur
> Direction des technologies de l'information
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