Does Mingle scale well? - ThoughtWorks Studios

May 29, 2008 11:59am

Koen De Hondt 56 post(s) #1612

My team uses Mingle since October last year and currently we have 1016 cards in our project. Since a few weeks, in which we created many cards, we have seen more and more scaling issues. I will bring examples to the Mingle user meeting next week, but I like to use this forum to investigate whether other teams suffer from the same performance problems that we see.

We have the feeling that the more cards we add, the slower Mingle becomes. There is already a discussion in http://studios.thoughtworks.com/discussion/forums/7/topics/595 about the unresponsive script, and I just posted a performance problem with the hierarchy view (in the bug forum).

My concern is that Mingle may not scale well. If it does not, it will become a serious risk for my team’s project. So I like to start a discussion and collect feedback that TW can use to improve any scaling issues we experience. So:

Do you see the same performance problems we have?
Do you have other performance problems?
How many stories do you have in your Mingle project?
How many trees?

Thanks for any feedback.

Jun 2, 2008 5:41am

Badri Janaki... Administrator 25 post(s) #1630

Koen – thank you for bringing your problems to our notice. The number of cards on your project does not impact Mingle’s ability to scale. No particular project or its data should impact how Mingle scales.

Performance of Mingle, on the other hand, is dependent on many factors, including project structure (tree configurations, property count, etc.) and, unfortunately, we cannot help you without knowing specifics of your project.

I would suggest that you log an issue with the mingle support team; along with specifics about your project. A project export/db export, with sanitized data, would be most appreciated.

To give you some details of configurations that do not cause a problem, the mingle instance we use to run the mingle project contains more than 3700 cards & 4 trees, The instance runs on a Windows VM with 2GB RAM; MySQL db.

Jun 2, 2008 5:48am

David Rice Administrator 156 post(s) #1631

Additionally, you should see some improvement in the performance of the hierarchy view with the 2.0.1 release that will be available tomorrow.

Jul 2, 2008 3:54pm

Michael Kloster 6 post(s) #1807

Has anyone load tested mingle? I’m curious how it would scale at 10000, 20000, 500000+ cards.

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May 29, 2008 11:59am Koen De Hondt 56 post(s) #1612	My team uses Mingle since October last year and currently we have 1016 cards in our project. Since a few weeks, in which we created many cards, we have seen more and more scaling issues. I will bring examples to the Mingle user meeting next week, but I like to use this forum to investigate whether other teams suffer from the same performance problems that we see. We have the feeling that the more cards we add, the slower Mingle becomes. There is already a discussion in http://studios.thoughtworks.com/discussion/forums/7/topics/595 about the unresponsive script, and I just posted a performance problem with the hierarchy view (in the bug forum). My concern is that Mingle may not scale well. If it does not, it will become a serious risk for my team’s project. So I like to start a discussion and collect feedback that TW can use to improve any scaling issues we experience. So: Do you see the same performance problems we have? Do you have other performance problems? How many stories do you have in your Mingle project? How many trees? Thanks for any feedback.

Jun 2, 2008 5:41am Badri Janaki... Administrator 25 post(s) #1630	Koen – thank you for bringing your problems to our notice. The number of cards on your project does not impact Mingle’s ability to scale. No particular project or its data should impact how Mingle scales. Performance of Mingle, on the other hand, is dependent on many factors, including project structure (tree configurations, property count, etc.) and, unfortunately, we cannot help you without knowing specifics of your project. I would suggest that you log an issue with the mingle support team; along with specifics about your project. A project export/db export, with sanitized data, would be most appreciated. To give you some details of configurations that do not cause a problem, the mingle instance we use to run the mingle project contains more than 3700 cards & 4 trees, The instance runs on a Windows VM with 2GB RAM; MySQL db.

Jun 2, 2008 5:48am David Rice Administrator 156 post(s) #1631	Additionally, you should see some improvement in the performance of the hierarchy view with the 2.0.1 release that will be available tomorrow.

Jul 2, 2008 3:54pm Michael Kloster 6 post(s) #1807	Has anyone load tested mingle? I’m curious how it would scale at 10000, 20000, 500000+ cards.