Hello all, A recent thread on 'dspace-tech' mailing list (see: http://www.mail-archive.com/dspace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net/msg11969.html) has brought up the question of DSpace 1.6.x's performance and memory usage. We've already had mention of potential performance issues (memory leaks, mostly), and the occasional need to restart Tomcat relatively frequently.
As DSpace Software is built/maintained entirely by an all volunteer Committer team, we occasionally need to rely on our large user community to help us track down issues that our individual Committers may not yet be encountering in their local DSpace installations. Therefore, I'd like to ask all of you on these lists for open discussion and community feedback around what issues you may be encountering in regards to DSpace Performance and/or Memory Usage. We welcome any constructive feedback you can provide, along with any hints/tips you may have discovered in your experiences. I've added a general template to report your DSpace performance/memory issues (or even resolutions, if you've found them) on this wiki page: https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/ScalabilityIssues1.6 You are welcome to report your issues (using that template) either on the wiki itself, or by sending an email to this mailing list. You'll notice, as a part of this template, I've asked if you'd be willing to volunteer time to help resolve the issues. My hope is that we can start an "interest group" of volunteer developers (or other semi-techie folks) who can start to work together more closely to share info and tackle these issues. Thanks all! I'm hoping this can help us to "jump start" the process of finding a resolution to any memory leaks or performance issues that may existing in the current DSpace software. But, it does take volunteers to make this happen quickly! Please share your issues & what you've found, but also think about volunteering some of your time/expertise. Who knows, you might even find it may result in an invitation to become our next DSpace Committer (thus providing you and your institution more of a "say" in the future of DSpace software)! [As a related sidenote:] if you aren't already aware, we also have a System Administrators area to our Wiki where any DSpace System Admins are encouraged to share their hints/tips/configurations/setups. Please feel free to take a look at it, and think about sharing your own hints/tips with others. Anyone is welcome to create content or new pages in this area: https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/SystemAdministrators Tim Donohue Technical Lead for DSpace Project DuraSpace.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Start uncovering the many advantages of virtual appliances and start using them to simplify application deployment and accelerate your shift to cloud computing. http://p.sf.net/sfu/novell-sfdev2dev _______________________________________________ DSpace-tech mailing list DSpace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech