SharePoint machine's poor performance

Dennis Jackson

• October 19, 2012 22:26

I am hoping to do a demo of a new product at a SharePoint conference using CloudShare for all the development.. 

But the performance today has been HORRIBLE all day. Everything on multiple environments is slow..

I am not feeling confident in the platform at this point and am looking for a way to mitigate our risk of a total flaming disaster at the worldwide

SharePoint conference in a few weeks. I would hate to have to build a demo VM / laptop as a just in case from scratch, but that seems like the only option. 

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  Dennis Jackson

  • October 19, 2012 22:27

  I looked and It appears to be Internet explorer:
  
  

  However I do not have IE open.
  
  It seems to be a system process related to FAST search crawl that is or did spawn those IE threads that are out of control.

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  Peter Franks

  • October 19, 2012 22:29

  Excellent catch Dennis! 

  I do recall seeing something similar in the past. I think what may have happened is a regular crawl was scheduled to run, and began as normal. However during the process it was cut off by the environment suspending as normal at the end of its time-out.

  Then after resuming the environment, SharePoint naturally thinks the crawl should still be running so continues to assign resources to it although nothing is actually happening. Over time this then adds up, slowly eating away at the VMs performance.

  If you do need to run a crawl, it may help to start this at the beginning of the day when you will be actively using the environment. This should allow it to complete as intended. Let us know if killing those processes helps boost performance.  

  Thanks!  

  Scott

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