Slow performance - Please help!

[Guest]

I am trying to find answers to a mysterious problem that we have been having for the last 2 weeks. We recently went from about 60 projects to 117 in one application.

When I (or others in my project team) pull up Visual Studio 2003 and pull up the application it takes about 5 minutes. Then if I go to compile it, it takes about 30 minutes. Any editing is also very slow. I am trying to find out if we have reached some maximum number of projects and that is just the performance we are stuck with or if there is something we can do to speed things up

We are running a P4 with 1G of RAM, Windows XP Professional SP1. We expected a slow down with the additional projects, but this seems severe.

 

[Gary Milton]

Hi Carri,

Are you loading and running the projects from your local machine or from a
network drive/share? Running from a network location can seriously impair
performance as everything has to be pulled down from the network whenever
you load up the solution and/or compile it. For the best performance,
everything should be run locally.

Are you using Visual SourceSafe integration? This is known for it's slow
performance and it may have been exaggerated due to the large number of
projects you now have in your solution. If you have the option switched on
to get latest versions of all source files when you load up a project then
you may be able to improve the performance a bit by turning this option off.
Also, defragmenting the drive on which the VSS database sits will also help
improve performance a bit. It might be worth trying to temporarily disable
VSS integration to see if this is the issue (or eliminate it as being an
issue). There used to be a way to disable the integration in VS6 via a
registry value but I don't know whether or not there is an equivalent way to
disabled in VS.NET. Maybe someone else knows how to do this(?)

Hope this helps (a bit).

Gary

I am trying to find answers to a mysterious problem that we have been

having for the last 2 weeks. We recently went from about 60 projects to 117
in one application.

When I (or others in my project team) pull up Visual Studio 2003 and pull

up the application it takes about 5 minutes. Then if I go to compile it, it
takes about 30 minutes. Any editing is also very slow. I am trying to find
out if we have reached some maximum number of projects and that is just the
performance we are stuck with or if there is something we can do to speed
things up.

We are running a P4 with 1G of RAM, Windows XP Professional SP1. We

expected a slow down with the additional projects, but this seems severe.

 

[Cengiz Dincoglu]

If nothing works, try building with nant, it'll be a lot faster....
It takes some time to set it up though....

 

[codymanix]

Why do you have to put all projects in one workspace?
Split it down in multiple workspaces and only open the ones you currently
work on.