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Sitecore performance tweaking - Media library issues

We have noticed performance decreases with a number of customers on Sitecore where a lot of content started to make its way into the overall site structure as well as into the Media Library. However, we were unable to pinpoint the exact problem for quite some time. It was not so much a problem of reproducing the actual problem in the environment but rather an problem with finding the triggerpoint where the problem really started to present itself across the environment. After applying the typical Performance tuning segments with regards to Caches, Indexes, Database maintenance plans and what more through: https://sdn.sitecore.net/reference/sitecore%207/cms%20performance%20tuning%20guide.aspx , we did notice an (expected) increase of site and backend performance. However, we noticed that the problem persisted in the Media Library. After this, the following tests were performed: - Check IIS logs - Check all available application logging - Run the databasetest.aspx help page f