Hi list,
There’s an optimized data-directory specific catalog and config loader plugin developed under geoserver-cloud’s code base that we’d like to contribute upstream as a community module.
Its goal is to improve the startup time of GeoServer when configured with a data directory that has thousands of layers, stores, etc. and config objects such as workspace services and settings.
On my laptop’s SSD, running off a cold disk cache, for a datadir with 100K layers over 100 workspaces, the performance improvement is ~8.5 seconds instead of ~44.5 seconds, with 2.23.1 as baseline.
But the most important difference is when you need to load the datadir from a shared drive, especially NFS, where it regularly takes over 40 minutes, and with this plugin around 4 minutes.
Hence I’m asking the PSC for permission to push this plugin under community/datadir-catalog-loader
Here’s a PR for your reference.
Cheers,
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