# Notifications are slow causing major delays

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/notifications-are-slow-causing-major-delays/313991>\
**Category:** Self-hosting\
**Tags:** server-resources\
**Created:** [June 27, 2024, 2:02pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/notifications-are-slow-causing-major-delays/313991 "2024-06-27T14:02:03Z")\
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**Author:** ![Simon\_Manning](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/simon_manning/32/198596_2.png) [@Simon\_Manning](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Simon_Manning)\
**Post date:** [June 27, 2024, 2:24pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/notifications-are-slow-causing-major-delays/313991/2 "2024-06-27T14:24:53Z")

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You say you just merged with another instance, how recently was that? Or the real question behind that, if you visit `/sidekiq` while logged in as an admin, are there lots and lots of jobs in the queue?

Importing posts is a multi-step process with most of the processing delegated to jobs that get queued and run after the initial import.

It sounds like you may have imported a very large number of posts and potentially it’s just still catching up.

An issue I also had with an import (from a legacy system wrangled into generic email import, rather than Discourse merge) was that thousands of jobs were failing and continuously retrying which slowed down the queueing for everything else. I forget exactly what that was but I was able to fix the problem in the post content which stopped those jobs failing.

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