Improving Workflow Performance – SharePoint 2013

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Many times you need to improve the performance of the workflow due to delay in execution or email intervals. Whatever the reasons are, you need to check four parameters to improve workflow performance:

 1 .Increase Throttle size

  • The number of workflows that can be processed concurrently per content database.
  • Default: 15
  • Change using: **“Set-SPFarmConfig –WorkflowPostponeThreshold 20″ **
  • Or :** *stsadm -o setproperty -pn workflow-eventdelivery-throttle -pv “20”    ***

2. Increase Default Batch Size

  • The number of SPWorkItems that the “job-workflow” Timer Job will attempt to complete in one run.
  • Default: 100
  • Change using: “Set-SPFarmConfig –WorkflowBatchSize 200“
  • Or: stsadm -o setproperty -pn workitem-eventdelivery-batchsize -pv “200”

3. Increase Time out

  • How long the job-workflow Timer Job has to complete its batch before it is forcibly shut down.
  • Default: 5 mins
  • Change using: “Set-SPFarmConfig –WorkflowEventDeliveryTimeout 20“
  • Or:* stsadm -o setproperty -pn workflow-eventdelivery-timeout -pv “10”***

4. Increase Workflow Timer Interval

  • How  frequently the job-worflow Timer Job runs.
  • Default: 5 mins
  • Change using: “Set-SPTimerJob –Identity job-workflow -Schedule  “Every 2 minutes between 0 and 59″”