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  2. MDL-52002

Gradebook performance improvements for Moodle 3.1

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    • Affected Branches:
      MOODLE_28_STABLE
    • Epic Name:
      Gradebook performance improvements

      Description

      In large courses (500+ students) with a decent amount of gradebook entries, a gradebook regrade caused by adding/moving/modifying a grade item can take a really long time, often several minutes.

      To test this, extend the testing instructions from https://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-51498 by adding grades to more assignments and monitoring the regrade time after triggering a gradebook regrade. Even in https://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-51498 a 20+ second query time to regrade an almost empty gradebook with 300 grades is unacceptable.

      From what I can tell, regrading is very liberal in choosing which grade items to include, and for each included grade item, a grade_grades entry's alteredaggregationweight and alteredaggregationstatus will be written out to the DB at least twice for each user. Once to reset it, and another time to update it. So a gradebook regrade is linear in the amount of grade_grades items present in the gradebook.

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          has a non-specific relationship to

          Bug - A problem which impairs or prevents Moodle from functioning correctly. MDL-51498 Improve performance for regrading gradebook

          • Blocker - Blocks development and/or testing, prevents Moodle from running (applicable to bugs only)
          • Closed

          Improvement - An enhancement to an existing Moodle feature. MDL-49324 Recalculating final grades is sometimes necessarily slow

          • Major - Major loss of function, incorrect output
          • Closed
          has been marked as being related by

          Bug - A problem which impairs or prevents Moodle from functioning correctly. MDL-50589 External gradereport_user::get_grades_table should regrade

          • Minor - Minor loss of function where workaround is possible
          • Closed
          is duplicated by

          Bug - A problem which impairs or prevents Moodle from functioning correctly. MDL-52854 Gradebook causes database slow down in 3.0

          • Minor - Minor loss of function where workaround is possible
          • Closed

          Improvement - An enhancement to an existing Moodle feature. MDL-49186 Grade Needsupdate with large recordset

          • Major - Major loss of function, incorrect output
          • Closed
          will be (partly) resolved by

          Bug - A problem which impairs or prevents Moodle from functioning correctly. MDL-51149 Updating a raw grade triggers full grade recalculation

          • Blocker - Blocks development and/or testing, prevents Moodle from running (applicable to bugs only)
          • Closed

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              Reporter:
              szuta Patryk Szuta
              Participants:
              Component watchers:
              Adrian Greeve, Jake Dallimore, Mathew May, Mihail Geshoski, Peter Dias, Matteo Scaramuccia, Andrew Nicols, Jun Pataleta, Michael Hawkins, Shamim Rezaie, Simey Lameze
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