Performance issues

[mnhcorp]

Hi,

I deployed this successfully on both the host server and inside Docker containers (the approach is.. hackish. I'll post my build process when I clean it up) but the performance is VERY slow, especially for large documents:

My purpose is to do a NER extraction from clinical documents (using MIMIC-III as test).

Questions:

1. How can I improve performance? I've tried bumping the instance specs (CPU/RAM) without luck. Also seems that tomcat/java does not use multiple-cores?
2. Can I turn-off features that might be slowing the request down? Given the cTakes has many modules, perhaps I can just turn on NER and turn the rest off?

Any guidance will be much appreciated.

Thanks for help and the project!