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  2. MDL-64284

The admin /admin/search.php page is slow due to analytics + classloading size

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    • MDL-64284-36_get_component_classes_cache
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      1) Install some heavy plugins which add massive amounts of classes to the auto class loading list, eg tool_objectfs + local_aws

      2) Visit the admin search page, note the page performance is much slower. Do a ?PROFILEME to see the bottleneck

      3) Apply patch, re-test

       

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      1) Install some heavy plugins which add massive amounts of classes to the auto class loading list, eg tool_objectfs + local_aws 2) Visit the admin search page, note the page performance is much slower. Do a ?PROFILEME to see the bottleneck 3) Apply patch, re-test  

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      The admin page has become noticeably slower on big sites which have many plugins installed, especially plugins that have large numbers of autoloaded classes (eg the local_aws which pulls in a ton of libraries)

      Some profiling points towards the core_component::get_component_classes_in_namespace being either slow or just called too much (eg on my dev box it is called 505 times, and takes 1.5 seconds wall clock time).

      But I think the root cause is actually the core_analytics\manager::get_analytics_classes which hammers this repeatedly with very similar calls searching for similar classes eg 'time_splitting'. Each time it is searching the entire list of classes. If I temp comment out the analytics code then the admin search is 1.5 seconds or 3x times faster.

      I'm thinking a way to speed is up is here:

      https://github.com/moodle/moodle/blob/master/analytics/classes/manager.php#L613

      Search for just all 'analytics' classes, statically caching that much smaller list, and then search that for the $element class.

       

       

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              tom_d Tom Dickman
              brendanheywood Brendan Heywood
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