#4601 voting app very very slow and sometimes gets server errors
Closed: Fixed None Opened 9 years ago by mattdm.

The voting app is very, very slow, and sometimes is apparently throwing errors. I've gotten several reports of failure and frustration. Let's make sure this is fixed by the next election!


We already have a big update queued for right after the election is over.

We didn't want to upgrade it in the middle of an election and run into problems.

If you could get folks seeing problems to test with:
https://admin.stg.fedoraproject.org/voting/
and see if thats faster/better for them (this is the newer version in staging) it would help.

Ok I already speed things up a little by simply dropping the link to FAS.

I renamed all the candidates from their FAS username to their full name and set the election to that the candidates aren't FAS users. This way the the application won't query FAS for the full names every time someone wants to vote or see the about page of the election.

In the next releases (2.4.0+), elections caches the information returned from FAS, so it should also be much faster even when integrated with FAS (thanks to Ralph).

For the rest +1 to what Kevin said :)

Note on https://admin.stg.fedoraproject.org/voting loading the list of candidates the first time still takes a while, but should be much faster afterward

This has been updated in production now...

Can you retest and close if things are fixed?

I think this is all fixed up now.

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