Custom Module increase OpenMRS start up time

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I have an issue with a custom-built module that slows down my OpenMRS instance during startup, whenever I tried to start my Openmrs instance it keeps running the start up process for hours.

Do you have an idea of what could be causing this issue?

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Can you point us to the repository that has the source code of the module?

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it’s in a private repo

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You might look to see if the module activator is doing a bunch or work or if the module has a poorly-designed liquibase.xml or something, but without looking at the module or (at the very least) a log with the module running, this is just a guessing game.

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Here is the link to a repo that has the project

Thanks

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@ibacher The module activator seems empty. Also is it possible for a module to conflict with another module in openmrs distro

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Was it always this slow? Or did it just start happening after adding a new module or all modules concurrently? Which version of the openmrs platform? I will suggest you scale-up both JVM and physical memory to perhaps 2GB, monitor the server logs and post here.

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@morrisng You’ve created a really interesting issue there… I have no idea why that’s happening off-hand.

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@morrisng your module has compiler errors. Can you first fix them?

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@dkayiwa that has been fixed please try again.

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Also, here is the log from the console.

https://pastebin.com/Ut0Pdfmc

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@morrisng Here is a git patch file that gets your repository to work on my machine. Basically, for some reason the webModuleConfig.xml was setting the moduleId property of the StandardModuleUiConfiguration bean. I don’t think that’s the right way to configure that, and in any case, that seems to have been the root cause. I’ve also included some small adjustments.

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Are you referring to this? Using the UI Framework in Your Module - Documentation - OpenMRS Wiki

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So I was. I missed that. There were other small Spring issues I fixed, so I guess it must’ve been something else! My bad.

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@ibacher did the module start on your openmrs instance and if it does how long did it take.

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Yes it started and took no noticeable amount of time to start

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Thank you @ibacher however I would appreciate it if you would simulate my environment on your machine so I have zip a copy of my modules folder here https://drive.google.com/open?id=1Em8hHKRm2HKeb6GOZT4HbirwcDPteWB5

Also, I use openmrs 2.0.6

I just want to confirm if it will take the same time to start up like you said before.

Thanks.

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Hi @ibacher, it seems this link is broken, could you pls check.

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@morrisng does your module use annotated classes? We experience a slow server startup when modules with such are introduced in our setup. We are, however, running on platform 1.12.1.