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@mart-r mart-r commented Jun 30, 2026

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This PR attempts to speed up project upload.

I was having trouble uploading the entity linking challenge project (i.e conversion from the raw linking challenge) to the app.cogstack.org trainer. It seemed to just crash it.
However, when I tried on the demo trainer (sites.er.kcl.ac.uk), it worked just fine.

So I thought perhaps the app.cogstack.org is timing out.

Looking at the timings, it looked like it was taking around 5m30s to upload the dataset to the the trainer instance I was running locally.
I got the time down to around half.
More specifically, it took 328.675s before, and with the changes it took 150.610s.

Here's the changes:

  • Avoid resaving the ProjectAnnotateEntities twice
    • The signal caused every save to happen twice for the entire DB entry
  • Avoid some file system IO by caching CUI filter file
    • This was also loaded off disk at every save time
  • Use model update instead of save for modifcation date of project annotate entities
    • The idea being that instead of updating all fields, only the relevant field gets updated

EDIT:
The next step would be to run this as a background task. But then some of the UI would need to also reflect that. So didn't get a chance to do that yet.

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