4 Replies Latest reply: Jun 18, 2014 11:19 AM by j9lazur RSS

    Publishing the site to BC is really slow. Ignores checkbox to publish only modified files.

    j9lazur Community Member

      I have been having trouble with really slow publishes to a business catalyst staging site for months and months. I have an 87 page site that, even for minor changes and with instructions to only upload modified files and very high speed internet, takes 25-35 minutes to publish. Every now and then I get a miracle and it doesn't take long at all but 95% of the time, I have to let my well-equipped Mac chug and chug.

       

      Any suggestions? I have noticed that the sampling of assets phase goes very quickly but it slows down as it works through exporting individual pages (screengrab below). And again, what kills me is that they are pages that I didn't touch.

       

      Screen Shot 2014-06-17 at 7.50.31 PM.png

       

      The site OpBarks: Home

      The muse file Dropbox - opbstaging-for-adobe-help.muse

        • 1. Re: Publishing the site to BC is really slow. Ignores checkbox to publish only modified files.
          j9lazur Community Member

          I watched the rest of the upload status window. It's definitely exporting pages where it really slows down. At 8:06 pm is was here:

          Screen Shot 2014-06-17 at 8.06.44 PM.png

          Then it sped through uploading css and html pages so that by 8:07 it was done. It finished within seconds of this screengrab.

          Screen Shot 2014-06-17 at 8.07.06 PM.png

           

          Upload started at 7:44pm, ended at 8:07. Total: 23 minutes.

          • 2. Re: Publishing the site to BC is really slow. Ignores checkbox to publish only modified files.
            Zak Williamson (Adobe) Employee Hosts

            If you're using an "All Pages" menu, then most changes in Plan view (adding, moving, deleting, renaming pages) will require all the pages that contain an "All Pages" menu to be regenerated and re-uploaded.

             

            "All Pages" menus are expensive for Muse to maintain. While it's unlikely to improve export performance, taking advantage of the fact master pages can be applied to other master pages to reduce the total number of "All Pages" menus in your .muse file to two would likely improve the performance of the site within Muse (esp. when making changes in Plan view).

             

            Ripple effects similar to that of an "All Pages" menu occur for any change to a Master Page or changes to styles (Graphic Styles, Paragraph Styles, Character Styles or Hyperlink Styles) or named swatches. A change to a master page, style or named swatch may cause all pages where that master page, style or swatch is applied to be regenerated and re-uploaded.

             

            The fact the screenshot indicates 192 files were uploaded is evidence Muse recognized only a subset of your site needed to be re-uploaded (as this site has over 500 files).

             

            Without knowing exactly what changes you made since the previous Publish it's impossible to know whether Muse regenerated pages or images unnecessarily. Frequently a change you might perceive as isolated in fact has an impact on the code gen for many files (i.e. changes to Site Properties, adding a Phone rendition, any update of Muse, etc.).

            • 3. Re: Publishing the site to BC is really slow. Ignores checkbox to publish only modified files.
              j9lazur Community Member

              thanks, Zak. I did do a publish this morning that was text edits to one page only and the upload was a breeze. 5 files total. So your comment about menus being expensive makes sense.

              • 4. Re: Publishing the site to BC is really slow. Ignores checkbox to publish only modified files.
                j9lazur Community Member

                Ok, Zak, wondering if you have any insight. I just hit publish again after making changes to a Services page and a Services Master page. I'm getting the 20+ minute publish again. I'm watching Muse export all the Article pages. I can't figure out why it thinks those need a full re-export. the screengrab below is one of many articles in the publish progress bar.

                 

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