Re: [xwiki-users] Attachment- and extension problems, with related documentation questions for latest stable release

Hi Johan, On 30 Aug 2015 at 14:40:38, Johan Eriksson (johan@moulinsart.org(mailto:johan@moulinsart.org)) wrote: What version of XWiki did you install? 7.1.2? That’s great that you are doing so; this helps us improve XWiki and the documentation. So the memory requirements is indicated on http://platform.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/AdminGuide/Installation#HPrerequis… As you can see there, for medium installs we recommend -Xmx1024m -XX:MaxPermSize=196m (and -Xmx512m -XX:MaxPermSize=196m for small). Indeed in your case you should use the small install recommendation since at this stage it’s only to play with XWiki. Now your problem is with attachments. If you check http://platform.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/AdminGuide/Performances#HMemory you’ll see a warning box with explanations about the memory requirements and a link that leads you http://platform.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/AdminGuide/Attachments I’ve also checked http://platform.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/AdminGuide/InstallationTomcat and it does point to the same memory doc as I referenced above, so normally you should have seen the issue with the memory required for large attachments. What we need to do in the future is enable the filesystem store by default but we currently have a limitation with it (as indicated on that page): "restoring attachments from the recycle bin via UI”. This is why we haven’t made it the default just yet. We have performance problems when uploading attachments in the DB (it’s very memory-hungry) but I didn’t know that the temporary directory was used that much. This looks like a bug. It would be great if you could open a jira issue at http://jira.xwiki.org with your details so that we could look at this into more details. Now since you seem to be wanting to have a lot of attachments and possibly or large size, I’d highly recommend you turn on filesystem storage for attachments. Unfortunately it seems you were not lucky and you picked one extension for which its author and the community have not updated to work on the latest version of XWiki :( As you can see on http://extensions.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Extension/Social+Login+Applicati… this extension has been contributed by Jerome Velocity but this person is not active anymore on it AFAIK and I don’t know anyone else who’s active on it at the moment (although Thomas Mortagne seems to have fixed some issues and released the last version - see http://jira.xwiki.org/browse/AUTHSL). I’d suggest 2 things: 1) you rate it quite poorly at http://extensions.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Extension/Social+Login+Applicati… so that others know what to expect. You can also help future users by commenting on http://extensions.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Extension/Social+Login+Applicati… (or even editing the page if you’re logged in) to add the information about the fact that it doesn’t work with XWiki 7.x. EDIT: I’ve just added that information on the page (haven’t tested myself, I’ve based my edit on your feedback). 2) you create a jira issue at http://jira.xwiki.org/browse/AUTHSL and maybe someone will pick it up and fix it.