Problem Definition

When a customer has a large number of fields listed in the "View Field Configuration" page or "Default Field Configuration" page https://<sitename>/secure/admin/ViewIssueFields.jspa the page takes >60 seconds to load.

The ViewIssueFields page can take up of more than 20 MB in size for the user to download and load it.

Notes

Large JIRA instance

• with many custom-fields (1000+)
• with many fieldlayouts items:

  select count(1) from fieldlayout; 
  273
  
  select count(1) from fieldlayoutitem; 
  281158
  
  select count(1) from fieldlayoutscheme; 
  211
  
  select count(1) from fieldscreen;
  2762
  
  select count(1) from fieldscreentab;
  3156
  

First load will take longer time due to retrieve data from database, see bug JRASERVER-61704
While subsequent load although faster, still takes longer time due to the page size being large.

Suggested Solution

If we could add pagination, we could limit the number of fields to be displayed so it wouldn't time out and load faster.

Workaround

There's no workaround at the moment