A customer reported to me that their content editor would freeze for 5 minutes if you clicked the root node of their site in Content Editor. I was surprised – bit when I went and did so, it froze for 5 minutes.

Now, this was on a newly upgraded and replatformed system, so I when and tried their existing system – and had the same result. The first click on the root node would take 5 minutes to load. So, it wasn’t our upgrade – but that I could study more easily. As it was the first click only, I figured caching was involved – but what gives? How do I find out what’s going on?

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