問題

If you have a large JIRA instance (>300k issues) then Full reindex might take a couple of hours. The performance of reindexing depends on many factors:

• CPU performance
• Disk performance
• DB performance
• Number and type of custom fields

By default, full reindex on JIRA 7.x runs only 10 threads, and Jira 8.x runs on 20 threads. If you have really good hardware then it might be underutilized and you may be able to reduce reindexing time. This is not applicable to background reindex which it's always single-threaded. 

The indexing operation is very database-intensive. If increasing the number of threads doesn't improve the performance, chances are that the database is the bottleneck.
Make sure that latency between Jira and the database is low and that DB index maintenance is done on a regular basis.

ソリューション

Goal is to review system resources and increase number of index threads until you reach saturation point. You shouldn't look at a single factor only. Please note that Lucene disk writer is single-threaded, so the goal to prepare just enough data for it.  

再インデックス中にシステムの負荷を確認します。

• CPU utilization (if it's below 50%, then you might benefit from tuning)
• Disk utilization (if it's below 70%, then you might benefit from tuning)
• DB utilization (check with your DBA if you have capacity there) increase DB pool size if required

Regarding Custom field indexers, they may be analyzed using the metrics described on this page (available for Jira 8.1 and later):

• Indexing Stats - cost of indexing custom fields

チューニング

Add/update the value of jira.index.issue.threads in the $JIRA_HOME/jira-config.properties (this file may not be present and will need to be created at this location for the config change):

Jira 7.x の場合

# jira.index.issue.threads = 10 (default for Jira 7.x)
jira.index.issue.threads = 20

Jira 8.x の場合 - CPU 数が許容される場合にのみ変更。例: 32 個の CPU のシステムでは値を 30 または 32 に設定

# jira.index.issue.threads = 20 (default for Jira 8.x)
jira.index.issue.threads = 30

チューニングのヒント

• It's necessary to restart the application to apply any changes done on jira-config.properties
• Don't increase the value too high (eg: above 2x number of CPU cores.)
• You can start with value 20 and then increase the value with small steps running a full reindex each time. If you don't see significant improvement then roll back the change. 

Please see for more details:  JRA-38598 - Getting issue details... STATUS   JRA-25788 - Getting issue details... STATUS

Below are some examples of reindexing time reduction due to better tuning:

1

週末にスレッドの数を 50 個に増やしたところ、ロックアウトのインデックス時間が 50 分から 10 分に短縮されました。平均コア使用率は 10% から 40% に増えました。

2. 

300,000 件の課題、32 コア、48 RAM インスタンスでのテストの結果です。10 から 32 スレッドにすることで、時間が 29 分から 15 分に短縮されました。

3.

スレッドを 20 に設定しました。インデックス時間を 1 時間軽減できました。これまで 3 時間 40 分だったのが 2 時間 40 分になりました。