open-webui/backend
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perf: renaming a folder or deleting all chats takes seconds when many users are online (#32888)
* perf: renaming a folder or deleting all chats takes seconds when many users are online

Renaming, sharing, moving or deleting a folder, and deleting all chats, each made the server recheck access for every chat that any online user had open in a browser tab, one database lookup at a time, before the request finished, and every one of those open chats reloaded its contents afterwards. Any user can do these, so with a few thousand people online every such click took several seconds and reloaded everyone's open chat. Owners keep access to their own chats (a role change or account deletion already disconnects them), so the recheck now skips owners entirely, with no lookup and no reload, and only checks people viewing someone else's chat and chats that no longer exist. Anyone who lost access is still removed from the chat as before.

Postgres 16, one open chat per online user, 2% of them viewing someone else's chat, time for a folder rename (the other actions above run the same recheck):

| Online users | No Redis, before | No Redis, after | Redis, before | Redis, after |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1,000 | 2.2 s | 0.12 s | 2.5 s | 0.23 s |
| 3,000 | 6.9 s | 0.60 s | 7.7 s | 0.78 s |

* refac: collect the open chats with a plain loop

Same behaviour, the owner lookup now reads more plainly.

* refac: shorten the owner comment in the chat access sweep
2026-10-25 07:21:47 +09:00
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data refac: mv backend files to /open_webui dir 2024-09-04 16:54:48 +02:00
open_webui perf: renaming a folder or deleting all chats takes seconds when many users are online (#32888) 2026-10-25 07:21:47 +09:00
.dockerignore fix: litellm config issue 2024-02-24 22:35:11 -08:00
.gitignore refac 2024-09-06 04:59:20 +02:00
dev.sh perf: allow disabling websocket per-message-deflate (#28613) 2026-08-24 18:46:07 -04:00
requirements-slim.txt chore: bump Brotli to 1.2.1 and brotlicffi to 1.2.1.0 (#33073) 2026-10-25 04:49:42 +09:00
requirements.txt chore: bump Brotli to 1.2.1 and brotlicffi to 1.2.1.0 (#33073) 2026-10-25 04:49:42 +09:00
start.sh chore: Python 3.12 and Debian 13 base image (#32861) 2026-10-22 04:51:57 +09:00
start_windows.bat chore: drop nltk, unused at the pinned versions (#29725) 2026-09-06 16:39:05 -04:00