Comments on: About to load test DEF repositories http://blog.stuartlewis.com/2008/07/18/about-to-load-test-dspace-eprints-fedora-repositories/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 09:45:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Stuart Lewis’ Blog » DSpace at a third of a million items http://blog.stuartlewis.com/2008/07/18/about-to-load-test-dspace-eprints-fedora-repositories/comment-page-1/#comment-1738 Stuart Lewis’ Blog » DSpace at a third of a million items Mon, 19 Jan 2009 10:33:06 +0000 http://blog.stuartlewis.com/?p=26#comment-1738 [...] As part of the JISC-funded ROAD (Robot-generated Open Access Data) project we are load testing DSpace EPrints and Fedora to see how they cope with holding large numbers of items. For a bit of background, see an earlier blog post: ‘About to load test DEF repositories‘ [...] [...] As part of the JISC-funded ROAD (Robot-generated Open Access Data) project we are load testing DSpace EPrints and Fedora to see how they cope with holding large numbers of items. For a bit of background, see an earlier blog post: ‘About to load test DEF repositories‘ [...]

]]> By: stuart http://blog.stuartlewis.com/2008/07/18/about-to-load-test-dspace-eprints-fedora-repositories/comment-page-1/#comment-902 stuart Wed, 08 Oct 2008 06:34:10 +0000 http://blog.stuartlewis.com/?p=26#comment-902 Tom: Thanks for your comments. Would you be willing to share data relating to the load that you have to cope with, so that we can accurately factor this in to our testing? Tom: Thanks for your comments. Would you be willing to share data relating to the load that you have to cope with, so that we can accurately factor this in to our testing?

]]> By: Tom De Mulder http://blog.stuartlewis.com/2008/07/18/about-to-load-test-dspace-eprints-fedora-repositories/comment-page-1/#comment-861 Tom De Mulder Wed, 01 Oct 2008 13:34:43 +0000 http://blog.stuartlewis.com/?p=26#comment-861 Could I just point out that the only reason our DSpace instance here at Cambridge (http://www.dspace.cam.ac.uk/) doesn't crumple under the scale and load is that we're running several local patches to cope with the very bad design of DSpace's thumbnails, indexing, etc. And still we have to restart the servlet container every night, lest we run out of memory (because there's at least still one memory leak in the code which we haven't managed to find yet). Could I just point out that the only reason our DSpace instance here at Cambridge (http://www.dspace.cam.ac.uk/) doesn’t crumple under the scale and load is that we’re running several local patches to cope with the very bad design of DSpace’s thumbnails, indexing, etc.

And still we have to restart the servlet container every night, lest we run out of memory (because there’s at least still one memory leak in the code which we haven’t managed to find yet).

]]> By: Les Carr http://blog.stuartlewis.com/2008/07/18/about-to-load-test-dspace-eprints-fedora-repositories/comment-page-1/#comment-123 Les Carr Mon, 21 Jul 2008 13:14:56 +0000 http://blog.stuartlewis.com/?p=26#comment-123 Fantastic! We've wanted to do this for ages but haven't had the funding / resources. I'd be really grateful if you can keep us in the picture and let us know where we can improve. Fantastic! We’ve wanted to do this for ages but haven’t had the funding / resources. I’d be really grateful if you can keep us in the picture and let us know where we can improve.

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