I haven't been able to find any mention of this issue, so perhaps it is just me, but BE 2014's GUI is incredibly unresponsive, and is making basic tasks remarkably laborious. Simple tasks such as: scrolling the Jobs monitor window, right-clicking and bringing up the context menu, click 'Back' to slide from a Tape Slot details page to the main Storage page, attempting to select multiple jobs and clicking Cancel or Hold ... all take maddening amounts of time. Even clicking on buttons, it is never clear if I am waiting for the action to finally occur, of if I have to click a second time because the first click didn't 'take'.
Example: Editing the details of a backup job, it takes literally 30 seconds between the time I click [OK] to when the window finally closes. It takes fully 23 seconds for the 'working' spinner to appear. I have timed this multiple times.
Another related element: Items in the Jobs monitor constantly jump around and twitch, apparently resorting themselves... even when no job is running and there is no other obvious activity. This is problematic because if I attempt to select several jobs at once (perhaps to put them on Hold before their scheduled run time) I will have to attempt the selection 2, 3, or 4 times before I can select all the jobs because the Jobs list twitches and de-selects before I can right-click or successfully select the Hold option that I need.
Even with menus: I will open a menu in an attempt to select Hold Job, and the menu will deselect and disappear before I manage to click on the menu sub-choice. Right-clicking on a job (either in the Jobs pane or the Job Histories pane) will produce a context menu that hesistates for a second, leaving most menu choices greyed out, and then choices will change to black... that is if the menu doesn't disappear before I can actually select anything. Sometimes I can't even get the right-click context menu to appear at all - even with the Job Queue on hold, and very minor BECAT & BESERVER activity in the background.
It's even worse when there are jobs running.
A quick look at the Debugger suggests that it may be BEREMOTE doing some constant processing in the background, but why this would affect the GUI is unclear to me. But I also experience this unresponsiveness w/o that service producing any Debug log detail.
This was an in-place upgrade from BE2010 R2, and we ended up requiring Technical Support to get the database migrated over, so perhaps there is some issue remaining with the database or Catalogs that is causing this horrible lag in everything.
I seriously doubt it is the server itself, because we have 2x 2.4 Ghz chips with 4 cores each, and 64 Gb of RAM, neither of which are hardly taxed on most situations, and definitely not when BE is not running any Backup/Duplicate jobs. Also, other programs run just fine; the laggardly behaviour is only in BE2014.
Anyone seeing anything similar? Anyone have any suggestions other than "Repair the Database", bcz I am loathe to do that w/o out understanding the cause of the issue first.
Halp? Thanks in advance.
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Neil
