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What hardware are the application servers running on? Naveed On 1 March 2013 16:43, Neil McKeown <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Solaris 10, Oracle 11.2 and Blackboard 9.1 SP8 > > We've been having ongoing performance issues which we're struggling to > bottom out. Our sys admin and Blackboard can't identify anything wrong and > the servers appear to be under no load with plenty of resources. With a > 'normal' number of enrolments (say 20) the service does seem to be > noticeably sluggish since upgrading to SP8 but only marginally so and we > have no metrics to definitively prove it. When a large number of enrolments > are involved (say 400+) the system starts to grind to a halt and becomes > close to unusable. I'm guessing that's why our most persistent complaints > come from admin staff with a large number of enrolments. I've wondered if > this has something to do with the 'course-to-course' navigation feature? > Has anybody else experienced anything similar? > > Also, does anybody have any opinions on whether the number of enrolments > would/should significantly affect performance for a user? Are we unusual in > having staff who need access to courses across a school and, as a > consequence, have many 100s of enrolments? > > Thanks, > Neil > > ********** > > Neil McKeown**** > > Learning Technologist**** > > 01274 233288**** > > Virtual Office<https://sas.elluminate.com/m.jnlp?password=M.83C042305E7A0A20A7923ABEB301E2&sid=2009263> > **** > >