SharePoint 2013 too slow

SharePoint 2013 Performance issue

 I recently came across a problem where my SharePoint Server was taking lot of time opening pages and taking forever to create a site. Task Manager showed lot of memory and CPU utilization

Looking under the hood found that  noderunner.exe was consuming lot of memory.

Noderunner.exe is a part of the Enterprise Search service and seems like is hungry for CPU and RAM.
It turns out that there is some problem with the service yet to be fixed (I still have not deployed SP1 because of its rollback)

The Fix

•  Go to run --- Type Services.msc and stop the SharePoint Search Host Controller 

 

• Modify the C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office Servers\15.0\Search\Runtime\1.0\noderunner.exe.config so that it can only consume X amount of RAM (e.g. 200 -- for 200MB)
• Save the config file and close
• Start the SharePoint Search host controller service
• Do this on all the servers where the service is running.

After this fix you will notice boost in your SharePoint server performance.

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Saravjeet Lamba