Long loading time

Hi All,
On our OOD instance, it may occur that users need to wait some time for OOD to fully load (see example below).


Corresponding entry in /var/log/httpd24/ood-server_access_ssl.log:

- - [15/May/2020:12:47:57 -0700] “GET / HTTP/1.1” 301 249 “-” “Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_14_6) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/81.0.4044.138 Safari/537.36”
- - [15/May/2020:12:47:57 -0700] “GET / HTTP/1.1” 302 238 “-” “Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_14_6) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/81.0.4044.138 Safari/537.36”
- - [15/May/2020:12:47:57 -0700] “GET /pun/sys/dashboard HTTP/1.1” 302 524 “-” “Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_14_6) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/81.0.4044.138 Safari/537.36”
- user1 [15/May/2020:12:47:59 -0700] “GET /pun?code=0.ATEAg2IDy[…]&session_state=6c02[…] HTTP/1.1” 302 238 “-” “Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_14_6) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/81.0.4044.138 Safari/537.36”
- user1 [15/May/2020:12:48:01 -0700] “GET /pun/sys/dashboard HTTP/1.1” 200 10202 “-” “Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_14_6) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/81.0.4044.138 Safari/537.36”
~51 seconds loading
- user1 [15/May/2020:12:48:52 -0700] “GET /pun/sys/dashboard/assets/application-05ef8da[…].css HTTP/1.1” 200 199278 “https://ood-server/pun/sys/dashboard” “Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_14_6) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/81.0.4044.138 Safari/537.36”
- user1 [15/May/2020:12:48:52 -0700] “GET /pun/sys/dashboard/assets/application-18125[…].js HTTP/1.1” 200 238848 “https://ood-server/pun/sys/dashboard” “Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_14_6) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/81.0.4044.138 Safari/537.36”
- - [15/May/2020:12:48:52 -0700] “GET /public/Blue_Roche_logo_h30px@2x.png HTTP/1.1” 200 1991 “https://ood-server/pun/sys/dashboard” “Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_14_6) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/81.0.4044.138 Safari/537.36”
- user1 [15/May/2020:12:48:52 -0700] “GET /pun/sys/dashboard/apps/icon/shared_jupyter HTTP/1.1” 200 5004 “https://ood-server/pun/sys/dashboard” “Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_14_6) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/81.0.4044.138 Safari/537.36”
- user1 [15/May/2020:12:48:53 -0700] “GET /pun/sys/dashboard/apps/icon/shared_rstudio-srv HTTP/1.1” 200 12828 “https://ood-server/pun/sys/dashboard” “Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_14_6) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/81.0.4044.138 Safari/537.36”
- - [15/May/2020:12:48:53 -0700] “GET /public/ec-hub.png?timestamp=1589572131 HTTP/1.1” 200 375363 “https://ood-server/pun/sys/dashboard” “Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_14_6) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/81.0.4044.138 Safari/537.36”
- - [15/May/2020:12:48:53 -0700] “GET /public/OpenOnDemand_powered_by_RGB.svg HTTP/1.1” 200 159559 “https://ood-server/pun/sys/dashboard” “Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_14_6) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/81.0.4044.138 Safari/537.36”

There are no relevant details in /var/log/ondemand-nginx/.
This issue only appears when /pun?code=[...] gets called.
The actual authentication took 2.3 seconds (we use OpenID-Connect for authentication) - most of the delay seems to come from the PUN process initialization.
Is this a known issue?
Let me know in case you need more information about any specific configuration file.
In case the openidc-auth configuration file helps:

# openauth configurations
OIDCProviderMetadataURL https://login.microsoftonline.com/[...]/.well-known/openid-configuration
OIDCClientID […]
OIDCClientSecret […]

OIDCRedirectURI https://ood-server/pun
OIDCCryptoPassphrase […]

OIDCScope “openid email”
OIDCRemoteUserClaim […]

Thanks

Do you have any interactive apps that use a form.yml.erb and whose erb does something expensive?

Hi efranz,
No, there is none.
We have made some changes to the oidc configuration file and are currently testing to see if these changes improve loading time.
I’ll keep you posted

Hey @rotaugenlaubfrosch are you still experiencing slow start up times with no interactive apps?

Hi @rotaugenlaubfrosch did the changes to the oidc configuration end up helping with the load up times?