title: Sitecore publishing taking too long
body: <p>A smart publish of an item (without publishing its subitems), takes around 1 minute to publish. Even when they are no changes to be published really. And this issue is not restricted to a particular item or a set of items - this is across the site. </p>
  
  <p>Log file snippet:</p>
  
  <pre><code>11412 11:54:29 INFO  AUDIT (sitecore\admin): Publish item: master:/sitecore/content/Home/error/404, language: en, version: 1, id: {872E1F05-CCF7-48F5-97EA-65A48FE93DAA}
  15368 11:54:34 INFO  AUDIT (sitecore\admin): Publish, languages:en, targets:Internet, databases:web, incremental:false, smart:true, republish:false, children:false
  ManagedPoolThread #96 11:54:34 INFO  Job started: Publish
  ManagedPoolThread #4 11:54:34 INFO  Job started: Publish to 'web'
  ManagedPoolThread #4 11:54:34 INFO  HtmlCacheClearer clearing HTML caches for all sites (1).
  ManagedPoolThread #4 11:54:34 INFO  HtmlCacheClearer done.
  ManagedPoolThread #4 11:55:32 INFO  Job ended: Publish to 'web' (units processed: 2)
  ManagedPoolThread #96 11:55:32 INFO  Job ended: Publish (units processed: )
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I had added a new setting <code>&lt;setting name="MaxWorkerThreads" value="100"/&gt;</code> hoping that would speed it up, but no  luck. All the settings/event queue are the Sitecore default ones. Looks like the process gets stuck in between.</p>
  
  <p>Any tips or ideas of how I can debug or fix this?</p>
  
  <p>Sitecore version - <code>6.5</code></p>
  
  <p><strong>EDIT</strong></p>
  
  <p>There is no firewall between web and master databases. Languages supported is only one - English. This is an existing solution and I didn't make any changes to it. All other events <em>except</em> publishing work as expected - no delays.</p>
  
  <p>Cheers.</p>