[MarkLogic Dev General] Viewing Documents with WebDAV

[David Sewell]

On Fri, 17 Jun 2011, Danny Sokolsky wrote:

> Hi Tim,
>
> There is nothing inherently slow about WebDAV per se, 
[...]

We have consistent problems using the MarkLogic WebDAV interface with 
data directories that contain, not a large number of files, but a number 
of very large files. The directories are slow to open, whether using an 
OS client as in OS X, or oXygen's browser. The slowness seems to be 
directly related to the amount of data stored in the directory. For 
example, a directory with 136 files totalling around 250MB of XML data 
consistently takes 20 seconds or show to return a listing via WebDAV.

On the database in question we have uri lexicon enabled, and my 
assumption would be that the WebDAV functionality would take advantage 
of this to compile a list of filenames in a directory quickly. I've 
never understood why the amount of data per se seems to slow down the 
WebDAV interface as much as it does.

DS

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