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title: Troubleshooting - Performance Tuning
slug: neurons-for-itsm/on-premises-help/enu/2024/troubleshooting-performance-tuning
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createdAt: 2026-07-29T16:39:07.966Z
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This section describes how to diagnose and fix common performance issues.
Issues occur occasionally in Ivanti Service Manager. This does not necessarily indicate a malfunction. We recommend that you evaluate each issue on a case by case basis.
| Symptom | Possible Cause | Action |
| -------------------------------------------------------------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |
| Dashboards and searches are slow to load. | - Incidents and other records that are no longer active still have open status. | - Close and delete inactive incidents as described in [About Reviewing, Closing, and Deleting Records](docId\:akKAuwLJwXRQtrYaB0wzd) and [Deleting Inactive Tables and Records](docId\:k2hozq_FZkxndOj8Cpd47). |
| Issues and timeouts that are traceable to the workflow engine occur. | - Workflows that are inactive are still enabled.
- Notification workflows do not validate email addresses prior to running. | - Disable inactive workflows as described in [Disabling Inactive Workflows](docId\:xudXh1-SdGf83wXOoDoWn).
- Validate email addresses in workflows as described in [Validating Email Addresses in Notification Workflows](docId\:xudXh1-SdGf83wXOoDoWn). |
| Database command timeout errors occur. | - You need to re-index the Ivanti Service Manager database.
- In general, when there is a timeout, the environment has insufficient hardware. | - Re-index the Ivanti Service Manager database as described in [Tuning Indexes](docId:5HqySN6FpVgOQB6KqN9OX).
- Verify that your system meets the hardware requirements described in the *System Requirements and Compatibility Matrix for Ivanti Service Manager*. |
| Workflows take a very long time to execute. | | - Delete workflow-related tables as described in [Deleting Inactive Tables and Records](docId\:k2hozq_FZkxndOj8Cpd47)
- Increase the processor count in the file called **WorkflowService.exe.config** to 40 as described in [Tuning Business Rules and Workflows](docId\:xudXh1-SdGf83wXOoDoWn). |