Sharepoint approval slow

We have several document libraries and custom approval workflows. Forms are created in InfoPath.
The slow SharePoint startup in the morning has been fixed with:
http://spwakeup.codeplex.com/
But some users are complaining that approving documents is slow. When they click approve, sometimes (not always), it takes around 15 seconds to close the form. That's very long if you need to approve 50 documents. It's very random. Maybe something with the
timer job interval? The overall website experience is fast, so I guess it's not a server resources issue.

Hi Koen087,
Yes, as it takes time to update after approval action is taken, it should be caused by the time job interval. Please check the Scheduled Approval Time Job interval in Central Administration and set
it to a lower value.
Reference:
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/0c971708-a8b0-45be-9a40-6513a6072343/sharepoint-designer-custom-approval-workflow-is-slow?forum=sharepointcustomizationprevious
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Eric
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Cannot connect to the Service Manager portal WCF service - Error when opening SM Portal

Greetings,
I have tried everything I can think of to resolve this issue and I have tried all suggestions I have found on Technet.
Basically, I had the SM Portal working on a test VM. I am ready to use it in production but it is not working. I deleted my test VM and built a new one. On it, I have SharePoint 2010 Foundation and the SM Portal installed. I have
a valid self-signed cert. the FQDN is correct (hqsrva24.dds.local) in both SharePoint and also in IIS. I also made sure under Application Settings on the SM Portal IIS site points to the FQDN of the SCSMWebContentServer.
So what happens when I go to the SM Portal (https://hqsrva24.dds.local:444/SMPortal) is it prompts me for a logon, which i put in and the site comes up. But at that point the Silverlight portion is not loaded and I immediately get prompted for a logon.
I have tried several different logons, all of which have full access to the site in Sharepoint. Eventually I get the error in red at the bottom of the screen "Cannot connect to the Service Manager portal WCF service"
If I try to access the Web Content Server service on its own (https://hqsrva24.dds.local/Servicehost/services/DataAccessService.svc), I get a prompt to logon and none of my logons work. i eventually get
an unauthorized error. However; If I log into the server which SM Portal is on and go to https://localhost/Servicehost/services/DataAccessService.svc, I get no prompt to login and I get a "Metapublishing for this service is currently disabled."
I'm out of ideas at this point, barring completely starting over (not just the SM portal but all of the Service Manager Suite).

Man I've had this problem so many times and its almost always a different solution. Are you sure that either the Domain Users group or NT Authority\Authenticated Users have permissions to the site and service. remember the the two prompts are authenticating
different things: the Sharepoint site and the application site (silverlight). Make sure users have permission in both SCSM and in Sharepoint.
- Slow is smooth and smooth is fast.

90% of the system resource is consumed when timer service is running

Hi,
I have an development environment with 8GB RAM with SharePoint 2013 and SQL Server 2014, The SharePoint runs slow when Timer Service is running. Turning of the Timer Service speed up the environment.
Is it a know issue with SharePoint 2013? Is there any update/hotfix available pertaining to the issue.
Thanks,
Ajeet

Hi Ajeet,
According to your description, my understanding is that the SharePoint Timer Service(OWSTIMER) consumes 90% of the server resource in your SharePoint 2013 single server.
For your issue, could you run Microsoft Net Monitor to see the contents of the packets that were being sent / received by the owstimer.exe process? Also please make sure your single server match the
hardware requirement:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc262485(v=office.15).aspx#hwforwebserver
Here is a blog for troubleshooting timer service issue:
http://soerennielsen.wordpress.com/2009/01/14/fixing-the-timer-service-when-everything-breaks-down/
http://www.mysharepointadventures.com/2012/09/sharepoint-timer-job-service-consuming-all-memory-on-server/
Thanks,
Eric
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