[Archivesspace_Users_Group] performance issues

[Douglas James Simmons]

I've not found the aspace interface to be fast enough for production use. Some of the retrievals it does while browsing take long enough that I wonder if I'm accidentally running in some sort of debug mode. Does such a thing exist? The VM our pilot is on is a 4-core/4gb instance which should be overkill for the six users we have during the pilot. Log spam in general is pretty bad with aspace, another reason I wonder if I'm running in some kind of debug mode.

Frequently I notice that java claims all the cores and the machine really begins to lag. I looked at the solr interface without really knowing what I'm looking for, is there some info there which would help me figure out what is locking up the java process? 

At present the system is making log entries like 
"Indexed 12325 of 37427 archival_object records in repository University Archives" but I didn't delete the index to force a new one and I'm not sure why re-indexing would take so much processor time when we aren't changing anything.

Thanks in advance for any suggestions as to how to diagnose the poor performance.

Doug Simmons
Procedures and Systems Analyst II

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