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Very slow startup of web / http manager

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Hello,

I have configured gitblit on my machine and all was well until now. It seems whenever I start /restart the service it takes very long time to start SSH Manger and the web gui.

As you can see, it takes Started @136214ms to start =136 seconds

May 16 19:32:39 netdava.com java[2863]: 2016-05-16 19:32:39 [INFO ] ----[com.gitblit.manager.IServicesManager]----
May 16 19:32:39 netdava.com java[2863]: 2016-05-16 19:32:39 [INFO ] Federation passphrase is blank! This server can not be PULLED from.
May 16 19:32:39 netdava.com java[2863]: 2016-05-16 19:32:39 [INFO ] Fanout PubSub service is disabled.
May 16 19:32:39 netdava.com java[2863]: 2016-05-16 19:32:39 [INFO ] Git Daemon is listening on 0.0.0.0:9418
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May 16 19:34:51 netdava.com java[2863]: 2016-05-16 19:34:51 [INFO ] SSH Daemon (NIO2) is listening on 0.0.0.0:29418
May 16 19:34:51 netdava.com java[2863]: 2016-05-16 19:34:51 [INFO ]
May 16 19:34:51 netdava.com java[2863]: 2016-05-16 19:34:51 [INFO ] ----[com.gitblit.manager.IFilestoreManager]----
May 16 19:34:51 netdava.com java[2863]: 2016-05-16 19:34:51 [INFO ] No filestore metadata file found
May 16 19:34:51 netdava.com java[2863]: 2016-05-16 19:34:51 [INFO ]
May 16 19:34:51 netdava.com java[2863]: 2016-05-16 19:34:51 [INFO ] ----[com.gitblit.manager.IPluginManager]----
May 16 19:34:51 netdava.com java[2863]: 2016-05-16 19:34:51 [INFO ] PF4J version 1.7.1 in 'deployment' mode
May 16 19:34:51 netdava.com java[2863]: 2016-05-16 19:34:51 [INFO ] Enabled plugins: []
May 16 19:34:51 netdava.com java[2863]: 2016-05-16 19:34:51 [INFO ] Disabled plugins: []
May 16 19:34:51 netdava.com java[2863]: 2016-05-16 19:34:51 [INFO ] No plugins
May 16 19:34:51 netdava.com java[2863]: 2016-05-16 19:34:51 [INFO ]
May 16 19:34:51 netdava.com java[2863]: 2016-05-16 19:34:51 [INFO ] All managers started.
May 16 19:34:51 netdava.com java[2863]: 2016-05-16 19:34:51 [INFO ]
May 16 19:34:51 netdava.com java[2863]: 2016-05-16 19:34:51 [INFO ] [GitBlitWebApp] init: Wicket core library initializer
May 16 19:34:51 netdava.com java[2863]: 2016-05-16 19:34:51 [INFO ] [GitBlitWebApp] init: Wicket extensions initializer
May 16 19:34:51 netdava.com java[2863]: 2016-05-16 19:34:51 [INFO ] [GitBlitWebApp] Started Wicket version 1.4.22 in deployment mode
May 16 19:34:51 netdava.com java[2863]: 2016-05-16 19:34:51 [INFO ] Started o.e.j.w.WebAppContext@47da3952{/,file:/opt/gitblit/data/temp/webapp/,AVAILABLE}{file:/opt/gitblit/gitblit-1.7.1/gitblit.jar}
May 16 19:34:51 netdava.com java[2863]: 2016-05-16 19:34:51 [INFO ] Started ServerConnector@4a254d75{HTTP/1.1}{localhost:8197}
May 16 19:34:51 netdava.com java[2863]: 2016-05-16 19:34:51 [INFO ] Started @136214ms

May 16 19:35:25 netdava.com java[2863]: 2016-05-16 19:35:25 [INFO ] Loading properties files from jar:file:/opt/gitblit/gitblit-1.7.1/gitblit.jar!/com/gitblit/wicket/GitBlitWebApp_en.properties
May 16 19:35:25 netdava.com java[2863]: 2016-05-16 19:35:25 [INFO ] Loading properties files from jar:file:/opt/gitblit/gitblit-1.7.1/gitblit.jar!/com/gitblit/wicket/GitBlitWebApp.properties
May 16 19:35:25 netdava.com java[2863]: 2016-05-16 19:35:25 [INFO ] Loading properties files from jar:file:/opt/gitblit/gitblit-1.7.1/ext/wicket-1.4.22.jar!/org/apache/wicket/Application.properties
May 16 19:35:25 netdava.com java[2863]: 2016-05-16 19:35:25 [INFO ] 12 repository models loaded for ieugen in 65 msecs

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Created 7 years ago
Comments:9 (1 by maintainers)

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gitblitcommented, May 23, 2016

You could disable caching altogether (not recommended).
You could shorten the cache window (web.activityCacheDays read notes!)
You could submit a PR that preloads/caches in a worker thread

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bviktorcommented, Sep 14, 2017

I’m pretty sure something’s messed up with caching. On a fresh install (with the existing several hundred repos) it’s like half a minute. Then eventually it slows down. Now I clocked it, 18 minutes.

Then I changed web.activityCacheDays to 3 (from the default 14), and it went down to 16 seconds. From 1113 seconds. Speaking of nonlinear…