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Slow estate · Symptom

Why does browsing one folder on your OpenText estate crawl?

Because a container designed for a few hundred children now holds thousands, and every facet count and column is a query per click, multiplied by every user.

Failure mode 3 Search and browse

Symptom

Opening a particular folder takes long enough that people avoid it. Every click on a facet or a column heading waits again.

The folder holds thousands of workspaces that were a few hundred when the structure was designed.

What we found

Single containers holding thousands of children, and facet counts recomputed over the whole result set on every click.

Every visible extra in the interface, each facet, column and count, is a query somebody pays for, multiplied by every user who opens that view.

The fix

Structure hierarchies so no container holds thousands of children, and archive and partition as the estate grows.

Audit facets, columns and default views, and remove what nobody uses. Each one removed is a query nobody pays for any more.

Thousandsof workspaces in one container that was designed for hundreds

What the logs said

browse timings    container open measured in seconds; facet clicks re-query the full set
system report     single container with thousands of children; default view carries unused facets and columns
verdict           failure mode THREE: growth past the year-one design, query cost per click
fix               partition the hierarchy, trim the default view, retest at the same container