# Troubleshooting severe performance issues with latest Discourse?

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**Created:** [March 12, 2021, 10:40am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/troubleshooting-severe-performance-issues-with-latest-discourse/182995 "2021-03-12T10:40:20Z")\
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A bunch of things happened in the past few years. There was a bug change that requires processing all of the images. I suspect that your server is slammed doing that work. You can have a look at `/sidekiq` to see the queue.

How big is your database? How many images? What does sidekiq show? You’re using SSD, right?

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