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Performance issue re. "list"-custom fields
Added by Bernd Petraus almost 9 years ago
Hi there,
we are implementing OpenProject in our projects this time.
While setting up the system and filling it with a kind of standardprojectplan we noticed a massive performance issue. This performance issue was due to custom fields, esp. long “lists” (2x 200 values). Once we activated our “list”-custom fields the switch of workpackages takes double to triple long as normal.
Are there any experiences or benchmarks re. performance issues while using “list”-custom fiels?
Best Regards
Bernd
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Hello Bernd,
performance improvements are definitely a relevant topic for the future.
However, the performance when switching between work packages with 2 custom fields with 200 values each (while not great) wasn’t that bad when I had a quick look at it (I did not notice a substantial difference compared to switching to work package without those custom fields):
Do you display a lot of work packages per page? Are there a lot of users in your project?
Hello Robin,
thank you for the answer and the very helpful gif.
The gif made clear, that we had a missunderstanding.
It is not about the loading time to expand the list. It is about the loading time of selecting another workpackage, right in the view you are showing in the gif. (assumed that the workpackages contain lists)
We suppose, that the whole list of a custom field is loading, right when a workpackage has been selected, not just after selecting/ expanding the list.
Deselect the custom fileds in your test project. After that you will “hopefully” notice less loading time to switch between the workpackages within that view.
However, let me answer your questions. I tried different numbers of shown workpackages. Always nearly the same factor of loading time between 2 and 3. (2x 200 values-list) At the moment a test user and me are the onliest users in this project.
Best regards
Bernd
Hi Bernd,
thanks for your explanation.
I could notice a performance difference and opened a bug for this topic: #22669.
Feel free to add information as a comment.
Best,
Robin
Thank you, Robin!