# Worse performance with Flowable 6.8.1 compared to 6.8.0

**URL:** <https://forum.flowable.org/t/worse-performance-with-flowable-6-8-1-compared-to-6-8-0/11420>\
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**Created:** [April 12, 2024, 8:43am UTC](https://forum.flowable.org/t/worse-performance-with-flowable-6-8-1-compared-to-6-8-0/11420 "2024-04-12T08:43:19Z")\
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**Author:** ![Yavor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/3da27b/32.png) [@Yavor](https://forum.flowable.org/u/Yavor)\
**Post date:** [April 12, 2024, 8:43am UTC](https://forum.flowable.org/t/worse-performance-with-flowable-6-8-1-compared-to-6-8-0/11420/1 "2024-04-12T08:43:20Z")

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Hello Flowable colleagues,

After adopting version 6.8.1 of flowable I have noticed a performance degradation of about 20% of our service. Any recommendation on how to speed up Flowable?

Our system parameters are:

- 5 flowable engines (5 cloud foundry instances)
- 4GB ram and 4GB disk
- PostgreSQL DB with 16GB of RAM and 1000GB storage with 4 CPUs

Our flowable processes contain a large number of Service tasks and parallel sub-processes.  
Example diagram: [https://github.com/cloudfoundry/multiapps-controller/blob/master/multiapps-controller-process/src/main/resources/org/cloudfoundry/multiapps/controller/process/deploy-app.bpmn](https://github.com/cloudfoundry/multiapps-controller/blob/master/multiapps-controller-process/src/main/resources/org/cloudfoundry/multiapps/controller/process/deploy-app.bpmn)

Full flowable configuration: [https://github.com/cloudfoundry/multiapps-controller/blob/master/multiapps-controller-web/src/main/java/org/cloudfoundry/multiapps/controller/web/configuration/FlowableConfiguration.java#L77](https://github.com/cloudfoundry/multiapps-controller/blob/master/multiapps-controller-web/src/main/java/org/cloudfoundry/multiapps/controller/web/configuration/FlowableConfiguration.java#L77)

Best regards,  
Yavor

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**Author:** ![filiphr](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/user_avatar/forum.flowable.org/filiphr/32/315_2.png) [@filiphr](https://forum.flowable.org/u/filiphr)\
**Post date:** [April 12, 2024, 10:01am UTC](https://forum.flowable.org/t/worse-performance-with-flowable-6-8-1-compared-to-6-8-0/11420/2 "2024-04-12T10:01:42Z")

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Hey @Yavor,

From what I can see you have a lot of async non-exclusive jobs. Are you by any chance seeing optimistic lock exceptions?

Do you know in which area is the performance degradation happening?

Cheers,  
Filip

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**Author:** ![Yavor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/3da27b/32.png) [@Yavor](https://forum.flowable.org/u/Yavor)\
**Post date:** [April 16, 2024, 7:26am UTC](https://forum.flowable.org/t/worse-performance-with-flowable-6-8-1-compared-to-6-8-0/11420/3 "2024-04-16T07:26:09Z")

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Hello, @filiphr,

we don’t have any optimistic lock exceptions and also we don’t know where the degradation comes from.

Best regards,  
Yavor

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**Author:** ![filiphr](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/user_avatar/forum.flowable.org/filiphr/32/315_2.png) [@filiphr](https://forum.flowable.org/u/filiphr)\
**Post date:** [April 16, 2024, 8:05am UTC](https://forum.flowable.org/t/worse-performance-with-flowable-6-8-1-compared-to-6-8-0/11420/4 "2024-04-16T08:05:30Z")

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Do you have some metrics that you can share with us perhaps? You can share them privately as well.

Would be good if you have some metrics / logs prior the upgrade and after the upgrade so that we can see some comparison and perhaps help us locate the area where the performance degradation is happening.

Cheers,  
Filip

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**Author:** ![Yavor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/3da27b/32.png) [@Yavor](https://forum.flowable.org/u/Yavor)\
**Post date:** [April 23, 2024, 11:37am UTC](https://forum.flowable.org/t/worse-performance-with-flowable-6-8-1-compared-to-6-8-0/11420/5 "2024-04-23T11:37:12Z")

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I don’t have metrics that can help you with identifing the problem. In the past we have also opened another [Worse performance with Flowable 6.8.0 compared to 6.6.0 (Global acuqire lock feature)](https://forum.flowable.org/t/worse-performance-with-flowable-6-8-0-compared-to-6-6-0-global-acuqire-lock-feature/10712). I don’t know if that will helps you