[Archivesspace_Users_Group] Extreme sluggishness with classifications

Thu May 21 10:07:04 EDT 2020

Hi all,

Purdue is in the same situation with slowing classifications workflows. After initiating a project earlier this year to attach a classification to each accession or resource record we have also seen a noted increase in load times when attempting to attach a classification to an accession or resource record on the staff side interface. We had an identical experience in 2.6.0 and recently upgraded to 2.7.1, where the issue persists. As others shared, the load time appears to be directly related to the number of records attached to classifications.

We also experience increasing load times when viewing/editing the linked records in the classifications module itself on the staff side. The public interface, which we use, is slow but still loading.

We have five classifications in total (none have children); the largest classification has 835 records attached at this time, which doesn’t seem like enough to cause the slowing response times we’re seeing.

The best guess I have would be that every time one attempts to add a classification through the GUI the system tries to load every record linked to the classification before providing the selection list.

I see that there is a ticket (ANW-652<https://archivesspace.atlassian.net/projects/ANW/issues/ANW-652>) from a few years back that Cory had put forth. This is an increasing work impairment for our unit. Any improvement would be most welcome!

Thanks,
Neal
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Purdue University Archives and Special Collections
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Thank you both for your responses. Well, at least it seems we are in good company!

On Fri, Apr 3, 2020 at 11:05 AM Kennedy, Nancy <KennedyN at si.edu<mailto:KennedyN at si.edu>> wrote:
We are in version 2.6 and have similar sluggishness with some of our classifications (the largest has about 4,991 linked resources).  It takes 1.9 minutes to load our classification with 4,991 linked records.

We don’t have many classifications set up right now, in part because we don’t use the PUI, and also I’m not certain if the classification module has an upper limit on # of linked records – is 4-5000 linked records already too many?  We’d like to use the classifications to do more to connect related resources, but need it to scale to large numbers of records.

Nancy

Nancy Kennedy
Smithsonian Institution
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Olivia,

We had reported this problem back in release 1.5.4 (https://archivesspace.atlassian.net/browse/ANW-652<https://nam02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Farchivesspace.atlassian.net%2Fbrowse%2FANW-652&data=02%7C01%7CKennedyN%40si.edu%7C0d380b68e00e46a5d4fc08d7d7dda336%7C989b5e2a14e44efe93b78cdd5fc5d11c%7C0%7C1%7C637215219275834553&sdata=Oc1WKltoUBTeK%2FVD%2FTD%2Fb%2FW1HzauKLdAca67WinYJkA%3D&reserved=0>), and some work was done. However, performance did not improve significantly and we were forced to abandon classifications. We would have preferred to use classifications, though, and would love to hear about what others have done to deal with the slow load times.

Best,

Cory Nimer
University Archivist
Brigham Young University
801-422-6091

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Subject: [Archivesspace_Users_Group] Extreme sluggishness with classifications

Hi all,

Has anyone else experienced extreme sluggishness with loading and displaying classifications/ classification terms? We are experiencing sometimes minutes-long lag time for search results, autocomplete functionality when you are trying add a classification/term in a resource or accession record, and in saving a new classifications/terms.

In our case, we are using classifications for 2 main buckets: collection strengths and subunits — administrative divisions or umbrella collections we have at the Briscoe Center. Each has about 15 children. Some of the children have a few hundred associated records. So two main tiers. The classifications and, one level down, their children.

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We are using version 2.4.1. Why might we be experiencing such sluggishness?

Thanks!
Olivia

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Olivia Solis, MSIS
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Dolph Briscoe Center for American History
The University of Texas at Austin
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Austin TX, 78712-1426
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