How to make JIRA faster?

Borek Bernard February 2, 2012

Are there any simple tips on how to make the default JIRA installation faster and more responsive? We use MS SQL Server as a backend.

I know JIRA is a big piece of software and that kind of justifies slower page loads but still, if there are some simple tips on how to improve JIRA's performance, I'd like to try them.

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JamieA
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February 2, 2012
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February 2, 2012

Jamie beat me to what I'd post, but I'd also add "use a proper browser" as a client side improvement. That pretty much means "not Internet Explorer" to most users.

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Totally agree, with the tacit understanding that that's not always possible ;-)

Borek Bernard February 2, 2012

JIRA is slow for us even in Chrome, I guess it doesn't have anything to do with the client side in our case.

Will read through the documentation, thanks.

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I'd ask a separate question with specifics... eg what screens, what plugins, how many issues. If you have experience inhouse try load-testing and profiling... http://blogs.onresolve.com/?p=95 plus loads of info on this subject elsewhere.

ArturP July 21, 2014

Hi Jamie, plz, help me to find your article, if it was yours :-) I'am asking about this two:

http://blogs.onresolve.com/2009/04/how-to-make-jira-twelve-times-faster/

http://blogs.onresolve.com/2009/04/how-to-make-jira-6-12-times-faster/

Site onresolve.comis down :-(

M. Sand April 19, 2016

It is not always an internet explorer problem guys. Open you mind a bit more. JIRA is slow. Nothing to do with browser.

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Jamie's original answer covers that comment.  It can be a range of things.  One of the possibilities is the browser.  As we've proved it's the browser in several cases (and IE is by far the largest culprit of bad browser behaviour).

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February 4, 2012

We have a large issue / project base. Here is some generic tips i can share

  1. We used Oracle DB as we had inhouse expertise, its a deicated schema on a seperate machine with very good hardware
  2. Provided enough resources for our VM (hardware and memory) where JIRA runs and its a dedicated ESX for the Atlassian Products (JIRA/Confluence)
  3. Indexing is on a seperate drive altogether (fast access disc), helps a lot
  4. Add plugins carefully, some plugins are killers ....
  5. No N/W hops between the DB and production machine
  6. GZIP Compression enabled

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February 2, 2012

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