After determining that the database gets worked pretty hard on start-up, I decided to add an error log to the XWikiHibernateStore.loadXWikiDoc command to see what was actually being loaded. I fed the result to sed and converted it into the following: Maybe things would go faster if lucene were made hold off for the first few minutes or pause for some number of milliseconds between page loads. 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The paste of the log which this list was generated from: http://pastebin.com/j6U0MLc0 Caleb