[opencms-dev] Maximum number of files in a dir/project?

[Michael Biber]

The interface of the application will slow down because of download file 
size increase. This is related to the content tree navigation structure that 
illustrates all the content items that continues to get larger and larger as 
you add content.

Now your question regarding how OpenCms can handle close to 24,000 content 
items.  Well, I do not have an answer because we do have a client with this 
many items and we never have load tested it at this level.  There are many 
factors for example, database type, separation of the database and 
application, number of CPU’s, RAM size, clustering, and etc.  

We do have some Fortune 500 clients that have around 7,500 to 10,000 content 
items and the system does run into issues at times, so we needed to upgrade 
them to quad servers for the database and application because of the CPU 
process issues when publishing.

Another issue is the number of authors publishing content at one time, which 
greatly effects OpenCms performance or any Content Management Server.

Even for Vignette7, this is a lot and do relies, Vignette has a lot more 
features than OpenCms.

Michael Biber


On Mon, 16 Aug 2004 12:56:35 -0700 (PDT), Michelle Harris wrote
> Thank you! I will definitely dowonload bibertech's
> info. To be slightly more precise, we have one project
> that has close to 24,000 items. Due to the nature of
> the data, it would be impractical for us to split it
> into multiple projects (as Vignette has suggested).
> Does OpenCMS handle even that large of a number of
> content items well?
> 
> Why does the UI slow down when there are many projects
> (~25 isn't actually all that many for most companies)
> with large number of listings.
> 
> Thanks again,
> Michelle
> 
> --- Michael Biber <mbiber at bibertech.com> wrote:
> 
> > Michelle,
> > 
> > To help potential clients when choosing OpenCms,
> > Biber (www.bibertech.com)
> > has put together Q&A sheet that you can request that
> > consist 25 pages.  
> > 
> > To highlight your question, OpenCms does not have an
> > issue publishing a
> > project with items that exceed 500 items.  We have
> > experience on client
> > systems that the administration UI explorer screens
> > start to become very
> > slow listing all the content items when you start
> > having multiple projects
> > (for example: 25 projects) with a large amount of
> > items.
> > 
> > If you have any questions, please let me know.
> > 
> > Michael Biber
> > Biber Technologies
> > 16 Monmouth Street
> > Red Bank, NJ 07701
> > 732-758-8040 #202
> > 
> >
> ------------------------------------------------------
> > 
> > OpenCms (v5.01 through v5.3) Q&A sheet
> > 
> > 1.0 Introduction to OpenCms
> > 2.0 Content Lifecycle Requirements
> > 3.0 Workflow Functionality Add Documents
> > 4.0 Notification Functionality
> > 5.0 User Creation
> > 6.0 Content Syndication
> > 7.0 Regulatory / Compliance Support
> > 8.0 Digital Asset Management
> > 9.0 Internationalization & Localization
> > 10.0 Metadata
> > 11.0 Security
> > 12.0 Administration
> > 13.0 Administrative Reporting Add Documents
> > 14.0 Functionality Roadmap
> > 15.0 Implementation Considerations
> > 
> >
> ------------------------------------------------------
> > Example:
> > 
> > 9.9 Implementation Experience:  Please describe an
> > implementation where you
> > needed to create both internationalized & localized
> > content within one or
> > multiple content initiatives.
> > 
> > Biber used OpenCms as the back-end engine regarding
> > content management to
> > deliver 12 different language online training
> > courses in the following
> > different languages: English, Spanish (Mexican and
> > Spain), French, German,
> > Italian, Polish, Turkish, Chinese (simplified),
> > Japanese, Urd, German, and
> > Portuguese.  A group of trainers use the content
> > management system to edit
> > and publish online courses to 50,000 users around
> > the world support on 20
> > different servers
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: opencms-dev-bounces at opencms.org
> > [mailto:opencms-dev-bounces at opencms.org] On Behalf
> > Of Michelle Harris
> > Sent: Monday, August 16, 2004 1:53 PM
> > To: opencms-dev at opencms.org
> > Subject: [opencms-dev] Maximum number of files in a
> > dir/project?
> > 
> > Hi there,
> > 
> > My company is evaluating alternatives to Vignette7
> > --
> > which we currently use to manage content types. Do
> > you
> > know of any limitations of the number of files/items
> > that opencms can have in it's dir/project. It seems
> > that v7 can't mass publish or perform other
> > operations
> > en masse when a given project exceeds 500 items or
> > so.
> > 
> > 
> > Any insight would be appreciated.
> > 
> > Many thanks,
> > Michelle
> > 
> > 
> > 
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