Duplicate action: possible performance issue

[ecomunicare]

Bug description

We recently encountered a performance issue while using the entry duplication feature.
In our project—a Statamic v5.x multisite—the action to duplicate an entry in a collection of about 1,000 entries (per site) consistently resulted in a 504 Gateway Timeout.
Could this be related in some way to the recursive function that assigns a unique slug and a title to the newly duplicated entry?

protected function generateTitleAndSlug(Entry $entry, $attempt = 1)
{
 $title = $entry->value('title');
 $slug = $entry->slug();
 $suffix = ' (' . __('Duplicated') . ')';

 if ($attempt == 1) {
 $title = $title . $suffix;
 }

 if ($attempt !== 1) {
 if (! Str::contains($title, $suffix)) {
 $title .= $suffix;
 }

 $title .= ' (' . $attempt . ')';
 }

 $slug .= '-' . $attempt;

 // If the slug we've just built already exists, we'll try again, recursively.
 if ($entry->collection()->queryEntries()->where('locale', $entry->locale())->where('slug', $slug)->count()) {
 [$title, $slug] = $this->generateTitleAndSlug($entry, $attempt + 1);
 }

 return [$title, $slug];
}

Has anyone else encountered this same problem or something very similar?
Or am I missing something?

How to reproduce

1. Statamic v5.x, Multisite (5 sites configured).
2. A collection with a non-trivial number of entries per site (~1000+) and reasonably heavy per-entry content (Bard/Replicator fields, relationships, etc.).
3. Attempt to duplicate any entry in that collection via the CP "Duplicate" action.

Logs

Environment

Environment
Application Name: gri.media
Laravel Version: 12.63.0
PHP Version: 8.4.23
Composer Version: 2.10.1
Environment: local
Debug Mode: ENABLED
URL: gri-media.test
Maintenance Mode: OFF
Timezone: Europe/Rome
Locale: it

Cache
Config: CACHED
Events: CACHED
Routes: CACHED
Views: CACHED

Drivers
Broadcasting: reverb
Cache: redis
Database: sqlite
Logs: stack / single
Mail: smtp
Queue: redis
Session: file

Storage
public/storage: NOT LINKED

Locales
Installed: ar, az, cs, da, de, de_CH, en, es, fa, fr, hu, id, it, ja, ms, nb, nl, pl, pt, pt_BR, ru, sl, sv, tr, uk, vi, zh_CN, zh_TW
LaravelLang\Actions\Plugin: 1.13.2
LaravelLang\Attributes\Plugin: 2.16.4
LaravelLang\HttpStatuses\Plugin: 3.13.2
LaravelLang\Lang\Plugin: 15.32.0
LaravelLang\MoonShine\Plugin: INCORRECT
LaravelLang\StarterKits\Plugin: 1.16.0
Locales Version: 2.11.0
Protected: en, it
Publisher Version: 16.8.0

Statamic
Addons: 23
Sites: 5 (gri.media, Il Bernina, Il Grigione Italiano, Il Moesano, La Bregaglia)
Stache Watcher: Disabled
Static Caching: Disabled
Version: 5.74.3 PRO

Statamic Addons
aerni/social-links: 3.3.0
aryehraber/statamic-captcha: 1.17.0
daun/statamic-placeholders: 3.1.1
doefom/currency-fieldtype: 1.4.1
dryven/faviconator: 1.3.1
ecomunicare/documentation: 1.1.2
ecomunicare/flash-news: 1.0.5
ecomunicare/infomaniak-vod: 1.0.6
ecomunicare/keystone-ats-news-feed: 1.0.4
ecomunicare/news-sharing: 1.0.6
ecomunicare/podcast-importer: 1.0.1
ecomunicare/trash-bin: 1.5.2
emplify-software/statamic-cookie-dialog: 2.0.5
jacksleight/statamic-bard-mutator: 3.0.5
justbetter/statamic-partytown: 0.0.2
mitydigital/sitemapamic: 3.5.0
statamic/collaboration: 1.0.1
statamic/importer: 1.9.0
statamic/seo-pro: 6.11.8
stillat/meerkat: 3.3.0
stillat/relationships: 2.4.0
swiftmade/statamic-clear-assets: 3.4.0
tfd/statamic-aida: 2.2.0

Installation

Fresh statamic/statamic site via CLI

Additional details

Statamic runs in flat file mode.

[duncanmcclean]

Can you try changing 'locale' to 'site' on this line and let me know if it makes things faster?

cms/src/Actions/DuplicateEntry.php

Line 165 in 198329f

if ($entry->collection()->queryEntries()->where('locale', $entry->locale())->where('slug', $slug)->count()) {

[ecomunicare]

Switching to site now makes things lightning fast!!