Importing a CSV with 1000 contacts is very SLOW

[trapanator]

Hi, I tried to import a 1000 contacts in a CSV file via webui.
And... it's very slow. After 3/4 minutes Zimbra as not yet finished.
My system is a pentium IV 2,8Ghz and 2 GB of RAM.

I've filed this bug:

http://bugzilla.zimbra.com/show_bug.cgi?id=14331

please vote for it.

[phoenix]

How about putting some information in the bug report about how long 'very, very, very slow' actually is and if it ever finished how long it took.

[trapanator]

OK. I'll try: (added to bugreport, too.)

The steps I did were:

1. Generated a 1000 contacts CSV file (name, surname, e-mail);
2. Imported into via WEB GUI interface (Options -> Contacts -> Import CSV file)
3. Click Import

on a Pentium IV 2,8Ghz - 1GB RAM and Firefox 2.0 after 4 minutes Zimbra hasn't
finished to import contacts.

It should be faster.

[phoenix]

Yes, but does it ever finish and how long does it take to complete?

[trapanator]

Originally Posted by phoenix

Yes, but does it ever finish and how long does it take to complete?

er ... i quite do not know, I "killed" firefox after 4 minutes... too bad it doesn't have a progress bar (bug #13134, I voted for this, too.)

[phoenix]

Well, I don't know about you but I don't think 3-4 minutes to import 100 contacts is a long time. Try it again and see how long it actually takes.

[fernandoflorez]

If the server is on lan then is a lot of time. I don't know exactly how the csv zimbra import is built but i guess they are uploading the csv file and then using the infile mysql command.

It should not freeze the browser.

[MidSpeck]

Originally Posted by trapanator

OK. I'll try: (added to bugreport, too.)
on a Pentium IV 2,8Ghz - 1GB RAM and Firefox 2.0 after 4 minutes Zimbra hasn't
finished to import contacts.

I'm curious, if you are using Firefox -- if your CPU gets maxed out while doing this. Maybe you are running into a similar problem as discussed in this thread.

Have you tried the same action in Internet Explorer (if you are using Windows) and see if that works any faster?