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Hi, what is the maximum size of workflow that can be started without problems? We are facing a strange issues with workflows with a size of 800kB and more. Until the WF is in size until approx 800kB, there is no error, but if the size exceed approx 800kB, there are errors "Failed to start retrying", "Error retrying" and so on.

Hi,

There is no hard limit in size so to speak. However, we have seen huge workflow which are > 1mb cause some issues. These issues are usually with publishing the workflow not with running it.

After the first execution of the workflow and it has been cached do you still experience this? Does the workflow eventually start? You may want to consider breaking the workflow into smaller segments and having each workflow call the next in the line. In this way you can also restart the workflow from different processes if anything goes wrong and there is an error. It will also make each workflow smaller and you should not experience this issue.

Hi, we have segmented the workflow into two smaller pieces already, but the size of the one is still getting grow... It is state machine workflow and for this case I'm not sure if it is good idea to break machine states into another workflows.

Anyway, we are experiencing problems with publishing and with first runnig the workflows also. As the IIS pool is restarted every night, every new day the first run of the workflow is really slow.

We are considering to schedule a workflow to run on a blind item at a scheduled time every night, to cache the workflow.

Hi,

We cannot really change the way this works, its SharePoint that controls this behaviour. When creating really large workflows (>1MB) and compilation and running the workflows becomes slow, the only real option is to split the workflow up into smaller workflows as many users have done.