When Social Collaboration add-ons are installed, performance degradation can occur, especially on content retrieval operations such as check-out, check-in, and document retrieval. Performance degradation occurs because download counts are incremented during check-out and check-in operations.
If you have the Social Collaboration add-ons installed and are experiencing performance degradation, and if your application does not use download counts, you can disable the Social Collaboration Document Get Content Subscription.
To disable the subscription: