Hello everybody, a few days ago I uploaded a folder of files (.doc, .txt, .pdf,....) on my Alfresco server (201707GA), then I noticed that CPU load started increasing uninterruptedly, reaching a CPU load of 400% and over. I tried to restart Alfresco server, but CPU started again to increase until the server was unusable. Searching on the forums I enabled debug log for Alfresco transformation:
log4j.logger.org.alfresco.repo.content.transform.TransformerDebug=DEBUG log4j.logger.org.alfresco.repo.content.transform=DEBUG
and after enabling these settings, in the log files I noticed a lot of lines regarding the transformation of a single file:
2020-02-07 00:05:30,299 DEBUG [content.transform.TransformerDebug] [http-bio-8443-exec-700] 68 pdf txt document_of_deployment_ugpa.delay_NO DATA_.pdf 803.9 KB -- index -
- SolrIndexer
2020-02-07 00:05:30,310 DEBUG [content.transform.TransformerDebug] [http-bio-8443-exec-700] 68 workspace://SpacesStore/84abc9c6-e665-4285-b263-f61b6e972f68
2020-02-07 00:05:30,310 DEBUG [content.transform.TransformerDebug] [http-bio-8443-exec-700] 68 **a) [50] PdfBox < 25 MB 0 ms
2020-02-07 00:05:30,310 DEBUG [content.transform.TransformerDebug] [http-bio-8443-exec-700] 68 b) [120] TikaAuto < 25 MB 0 ms
2020-02-07 00:05:30,311 DEBUG [content.transform.TransformerDebug] [http-bio-8443-exec-700] 68.1 pdf txt document_of_deployment_ugpa.delay_NO DATA_.pdf 803.9 KB PdfBox
this sequence of lines repeated about every 5 minutes for about 150 times...I deleted that file from Alfresco and the server load returned normal.
Now my question is: is there a way to avoid this behaviour, without disabling Alfresco transformation? Maybe limiting the number of retries?
Is it an issue related to document preview or indexing?
Have you looked at this JIRA - seems to be similar. I haven't read the entire JIRA, but there may be some suggestions there: https://issues.alfresco.com/jira/browse/MNT-7666
There are some parameters that can be used to change the timeouts, etc. https://docs.alfresco.com/community/references/dev-extension-points-content-transformer.html
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