Datasource shadow asset limits

(Veryphatic) #1

Hi there, I'd like to know what the limit is on the number of assets that Matrix can support when I create a datasource. For example if I create a CSV or XML datasource, what is the maximum number of assets that the system will allow me to create?


Thanks!

(Ashish Karelia) #2

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Hi there, I’d like to know what the limit is on the number of assets that Matrix can support when I create a datasource. For example if I create a CSV or XML datasource, what is the maximum number of assets that the system will allow me to create?



Thanks!

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Hi There is no upper limit to this. Once while debugging for somethign I had my XML data source which was rendering 4K+ assets. Although because there are shadow assets, you wont be able to see the total number under the data source when you expand the assets. What I mean can be seen in the pic below.

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Ash
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(Veryphatic) #3

Excellent, thanks Ash.


However, with so many assets, when they're being pulled together with an asset listing, is there be a performance hit; or is this handled by the cache?

(Ashish Karelia) #4

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Excellent, thanks Ash.



However, with so many assets, when they're being pulled together with an asset listing, is there be a performance hit; or is this handled by the cache?

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You should be able to use caching for this asset listing. Although if the asset isn't served from cache then Matrix will need to gather up the list of the assets. Depending upon the configurations on the Asset Listing this can be resource intensive.

But there has been a few performance enhancement to asset listing which might be helpful (Bug #5197 Potential performance improvement in listing page when static root node has 1000s of children comes to mind).



Also a lot of time discussions are going on about the issue client have in terms of performance on forums with respect to Asset listings. May be doing a quick search and reading those topics might help.



Ash.

(Tbaatar) #5

Can you limit the number of shadow assets from a feed?

 

I know you can limit with asset listing but I want to know if you can limit at source.

 

 

Thanks.

(Ashish Karelia) #6

Can you limit the number of shadow assets from a feed?

 

I know you can limit with asset listing but I want to know if you can limit at source.

 

 

Thanks.

 

What Data Source are you using?

Having a quick look to confirm tells me that there isn't any way to limit them to start with.

 

Ash