Performance is characterized by the amount of useful work accomplished by a computer system compared to the time and resources used.
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Why is SharePoint so slow?
I'm a SharePoint user.
My company has introduced SharePoint and use it as their intranet site. They've made some changes to the masterpages, etc. to let the intranet have a 'corporate' feel. There ...
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Performance problem with custom web part
We've implemented a custom web part which we use to render content of an external website into a SharePoint page.
During our test we encountered some strange performance issues.
When we open a ...
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Has anyone optimized the front-end (css/javascript files) of a SharePoint site
So it seems to be that Sharepoint's front-end optimization is non-existant. For example, http://dfs.us.dell.com/Pages/DFSHomePage.aspx, according to YSlow, is serving up 14 separate JavaScript files, ...
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Is there a good SharePoint 2010 Page Profiling tool about?
If I want to measure how long it takes for my browser to render a page, requests, scripts, the lot, in ie9, what's a good tool for that?
The idea being is that I have a very heavy page which I want ...
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What are the maintenance actions that can be done on a Sharepoint application to ensure optimum performance?
After deploying a Sharepoint application, what maintenance actions can be done to ensure optimal performance and avoid degradation of performance over time?
I can think of the following:
Schedule ...
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SharePoint 2010 Performance troubleshooting
I have problem with SP 2010 performance and I need someone to recheck my troubleshooting steps, validate my findings or suggest anything useful.
I have Intranet portal as follows:
1 front end ...
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SharePoint 2010 Sandboxed solutions performance
Does code that is deployed through a Sandboxed solution perform just a well as code deployed through a Farm solution?
Does the overhead that comes with interprocess communication (since Sandboxed ...
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Working with large external lists using BCS
I have a database that I want to display the content in SharePoint 2010. I am not displaying the content in a list but am using a custom WebPart.
The database is not updated any more as it is ...
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Performance Issues using SQL Server Reporting Services in SharePoint Integrated Mode [closed]
Does anyone have experience with the following issue? Are there any known workarounds?
Official MS Statement: General overhead performance differences when you view reports in SharePoint integrated ...
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Why is Session State disabled in SharePoint by default?
Why is Session State disabled in SharePoint by default?
Does it not make use of session in any feature of SharePoint at all?
If so then which features require session?
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SPSiteDataQuery vs. Recursive SPWeb.Lists Performance
I'm looking for the best performing means of querying for site data within a site collection. I need to query for all of the lists in either a particular SPWeb, or a set of SPWeb's, that contain a ...
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Performance of SharePoint 2010 Managed Client Object Model
Is there any published information (by the community or Microsoft) about performance of the new web service based Managed Client Object Model versus the pre-2010 object model?
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SP Administrator Toolkit for stress testing SP 2010?
I'm looking for a simple way to execute stress tests on a new SP 2010 farm.
The SP Administrator toolkit page says that it an use SP 2007 logs to create the load test, for use in upgrade scenarios.
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After adjusting version settings (from unlimited to max 10) performance grinds to a halt
For several document libraries in our SharePoint environment end user enabled versions without setting a limit. Or were given a document library with unlimited versions(result of having no governance ...
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Sharepoint 2007 farm performance goes down?
Our sharepoint 2007 farm is not working properly and we are facing a huge performance hit, some times it throws an unexpected error too.
What all are the points to check? i.e like
Depth of the ...
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MSDN like application on SharePoint 2010
I have a project initiated for a client where they want a Knowledge Base Application for their line of business. The interface needed is almost a replica of MSDN Library which needs to implemented ...
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Performance of search vs. using the object model?
Does anyone know how the performance of searching for items compares to using the object model to access them?
When I say "object model" i mean using SPList to get a collection of SPListItems and ...
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Efficiently determine if a List is using item level security
How can you efficiently determine if any of the items in a List don't inherit their security from the List?
You could use SPListItem.HasUniqueRoleAssignments but this would require iterating through ...
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Demo computers, how to raise the system responsivness?
I have to perform some demonstration about the SharePoint 2010 features. I have for this task only a standard laptop with only 4GB of Ram.
As the demonstrations are multi purpose, I have set up ...
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Is there any way to check does list exists without try catch?
Now i'm using same way to check does list exist by url
SPList logList = null;
try
{
logList = site.RootWeb.GetListFromWebRelativeUrl("Lists/LogRecords");
}
catch { }
if (null != logList)
...
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How do I tune a SharePoint 2010 farm on VMWare?
We have a large SharePoint 2010 farm running on VMWare ESX cluster. Based on the hardware underpinning this environment and the given load (which is light), we feel like the servers are responding ...
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How to perform stress test against sharepoint site using threads
I want to analyze the performance (hence its weak points) of a sharepoint site doing stress test activity. What is needed to be done is call some methods exposed via web service that do the following ...
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SharePoint 2007 - 100% CPU usage
Our SharePoint 2007 server is using 100% cpu usage, we have a single farm setup with a 1 application server(central admin) and 1 database server.
Inspecting the tasklist I can see there are 7 ...
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How can I speed up the Site Performance?
Are there any non-hardware related methods for increasing or optimizing the performance of a new Sharepoint 2010 Enterprise implementation?
There are over 1000 users that access this site and it can ...
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Improving SharePoint 2010 performance in a VM
I have created a virtual machine with windows server 2008, Visual Studio 2010, and SharePoint 2010 for development and testing. The machine is configured in VMWare with 40gb hdd, 2gb ram, and 4 ...
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Performance testing SharePoint 2010
I'm eagerly awaiting the SharePoint 2010 Administrators toolkit to assist with performance testing. We'd like to setup multiple configurations of hardware/topology to determine the best fit. I'd ...
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Is accessing AllProperties efficient?
I'm currently storing a few values in the SPWeb.AllProperties hashtable. But I'm thinking of adding even more data into it. Before I start using it more and more though, I wondered if using ...
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SharePoint Takes 15 Seconds to Load Page
I've got a problem with my SharePoint 2010 farm and I can't think where to start. Bizzarly, this is happening in multiple completly seperate environments (DEV/TEST/PREPROD/PROD).
Every so often ...
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Slow SharePoint Blog
The SharePoint 2010 blog can at times be very slow when rendering individual posts.
The time is generally due to the following operations:
DataBinding DataFormWebPart (Postsâ€[1]‬) (2654.17 ms)
...
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How often should the auditing log be cleared to not affect performance?
We are building a system that uses SharePoint Auditing in a SharePoint Foundation deployment.
We are wondering about the degradation of performance overtime as the amount of audit information grows.
...
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Can all the /_layouts/xxx.debug.js files not be served to end users?
I'm working with a 3rd party vendor who has done the SP 2010 integration of a small site. I've noticed that our incredibly simple login page is nearly 3.2 megabytes. The users of this site are the ...
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Remote BLOB Storage and Sharepoint 2010
I have a SharePoint Server 2010 documents library. Library's size - 20 Gb. Size increases each year by 1-2 GB. It stores files ranging in size from 1 to 50 MB. Files rarely change.
Should I use the ...
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SharePoint 2010 equivalent to SQL Profiler?
Is there a way to view the CAML that is running on a SharePoint 2010 installation?
A bit like how you can monitor SQL running on a database with MS-SQL Server - is this possible with CAML and ...
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MOSS timing out on regular basis
I have been running into an issue on MOSS 2007 for the last two weeks, users are reporting extremely slow responses from SharePoint, a lot are reporting time outs when doing anything within ...
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Jumping to a specific page within a SharePoint List
I was wondering what people think the best way is to jump to a specific page within a sharepoint list, taking into account performance considerations.
eg:
1) List with 1000 items in it
2) Each page ...
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Speeding up Development Environment
I have a Windows 7 box where I do development work on before pushing up to a central dev server. The performance on my local machine is holding me back. I like to deploy regularly to check changes ...
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Does using multiple web applications affect performance?
A client is requesting a special web application topology that seems odd to me. In a mid-sized SP2010 farm (two WFEs, two app servers) they will have hundreds of site collections. The requirement is ...
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Can we avoid clunky hiding of WebParts?
It's a real drag and performance killer to have to load all the WebParts on a page and then laboriously hide and reveal all the ones relevant to user groups / permission levels. Especially when on the ...
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Should we use web service lists.asmx over CAML when working with large lists
There is a list that has around 100k items in a SharePoint Site Collection. This site has been customized to serve certain business requirements through visual webparts.
While, regular CRUD ...
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Off the shelf solutions for increasing SharePoint performance?
What off the shelf solution/software do you use or recommend for enhancing SharePoint performance?
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Where do I look up to see Performance related issues in SharePoint 2010?
I want to be aware of performance related issues with SharePoint 2010 while I'm designing my solutons. What's the best place to look up?
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Sharepoint 2013 extremely slow
We have an new sharepoint 2013 site, Server Virtual and standalone , it has 12 gb ram.
This sharepoint user interface extremely slow.
In Developer Dashboard we see each aspx page requests waiting ...
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Call entire list, 2000 items at a time?
If I need to store say 10,000 items in a list, but want to call them sequentially 2000 items at a time, what is the best method for doing that? I assume it's similar to a paged call, but want to ...
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Sharepoint2010 performance
We have Sharepoint2010Foundation development like following.
1 windows2008 server x64 (Dbase and App Server)
8gb Ram and 4 Cpu on Virtual Environment
Platform will be used over 600 users and we ...
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How to improve performance of lists with multi-lookups
I have a list that includes several lookup fields. Some of these are simple lookups (only one value allowed), others are multi-lookups (the "allow multiple values" checkbox is selected).
I have ...
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Performance bottleneck on SharePoint upload method
Trying to eliminate a performance bottleneck on a method doing file and metadata uploads. According to the profiler on a line-by-line of the decompiled code, the majority of time is spent on ...
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WebPart Zones effect on Performance
Will there be any performance effect if we have more number of Webpart Zones in a Page Layout lets say 25 ?
We wont be keeping webparts in all the zones. But we need to have more zones on page ...
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DataViewWebPart XSLT Caching
I have a DataViewWebPart with a complicated and rather expensive linked XSLT (the XSLT itself is stored in the Documents library of the site).
Currently, the part takes a long time to render, even ...
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Standard database maintenence jobs for SharePoint farm
I was wondering if there were any best practices to maintain performance of a SharePoint farm as sites and content are added. For example DBCC commands.
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Best way to update an in memory cache across a SharePoint farm?
We have 3 front-end servers each running multiple web applications. Each web application has an in memory cache.
Recreating the cache is very expensive (>1 min). Therefore we repopulate it using a ...
