[Building Sakai] Production issue with Lesson Builder

[Kirschner, Beth]

Is this written up in JIRA anywhere?

- Beth

On Jan 13, 2014, at 10:39 AM, Bryan Holladay <holladay at longsight.com> wrote:

> >Does that help with the excessive number of items?
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> Yes and no.  It prevents the excessive number of orphaned pages by the instructor re-importing and deleting the half imported material.  I've seen cases where it takes 10+ minutes for the import to complete, which is why instructor's keep trying the import and causing millions of pages to be created.  We actually had to track the instructor down and tell them to stop importing until we get the fix in since every time we restarted the instructor went back in to re-import.  However, this patch doesn't address the issue inside of LB's import code.  So I'm sure there is room for more improvement, but it seemed like it was the combination of multiple imports + non-performant import code.  The good/bad thing about this issue is that it only comes up in the first week or so of the semester.  So it won't be an issue again until next semester and any fix you add you won't really be certain until then as well.  I'm not going to jinx us by saying everything is going fine so far with that patch with this start of this semester but you can infer that if you wish ;)
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> Thanks,
> Bryan
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> On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 9:16 AM, May, Megan Marie <mmmay at iu.edu> wrote:
> Thanks Bryan!     We started looking at that patch last night.   
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> Does that help with the excessive number of items?  Even with 1 import we’ve seen a high number of duplicate entries (over 1000).   
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> Megan
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> From: Bryan Holladay [mailto:holladay at longsight.com] 
> Sent: Monday, January 13, 2014 8:38 AM
> To: May, Megan Marie
> Cc: sakai-dev (sakai-dev at collab.sakaiproject.org)
> Subject: Re: [Building Sakai] Production issue with Lesson Builder
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> My first assumption would be that it is from importing previous course LB's into the new courses.  We've seen a lot of issues with performance, excessive number of items and server stress with this process.  We created/provided this jira to help alleviate some of the issue:
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> SAK-23897 Site Info -> Import from site needs to run in a seperate thread and email user when finished
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> We were seeing instructors importing several times b/c it would either time out or they'd give up on the process and try again (or click several times).  If I wanted to bring down a Sakai server, that is how I would do it (site import with LB)
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> -Bryan
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> On Sun, Jan 12, 2014 at 1:22 PM, May, Megan Marie <mmmay at iu.edu> wrote:
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> On Friday the following SQL began running for excessive periods of time  
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> update lesson_builder_items set pageId=:1 , sequence=:2 , type=:3 , sakaiId=:4 , name=:5 , html=:6 , description=:7 , height=:8 , width=:9 , alt=:10 , nextPage=:11 , format=:12 , required=:13 , alternate=:14 , prerequisite=:15 , subrequirement=:16 , requirementText=:17 , sameWindow=:18 , groups=:19 , anonymous=:20 , showComments=:21 , forcedCommentsAnonymous=:22 , gradebookId=:23 , gradebookPoints=:24 , gradebookTitle=:25 , altGradebook=:26 , altPoints=:27 , altGradebookTitle=:28 where id=:29  
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> As a stop gap we’ve bounced the app servers these are occurring on.    We’ve noted HUGE increases in the number of rows in LESSON_BUILDER_ITEMS  & the increases pertain to  rows in lesson_builder_items show a SAKAIID of “/dummy”  (Import issues?)   The behavior seems like a loop – and we’ve looked at LSNBLDR-304 although the cause of it is ambiguous so we’re hesitant to move forward with it.  
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> Has anyone encountered this?   
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> Megan May
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