Automatic Checkout very slow

thomas woelfer · Post by **thomas woelfer** » Wed Apr 23, 2008 9:16 am

i'm using the vs2005 enhanced client auf vault 4.1.1 (18060).

when i'm starting to type into a file that at that point in time is not checked out, vault will automatically do a checkout for the file, just like source safe did.

however, /w source safe, the checkout was done instantly, that is, maybe within a secod or so. with vault, it takes about 30 seconds before i can actually start typing. adding a new file to a project takes even longer.

is there any way to make this work faster ?

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-thomas woelfer

ian_sg · Post by **ian_sg** » Wed Apr 23, 2008 10:09 am

I'd like to try to rule out some potential problems. If you check out a file in the stand-alone client, how long does that take? If that's also quite slow, it's likely that the network between you and the Vault server is to blame.

thomas woelfer · Post by **thomas woelfer** » Wed Apr 23, 2008 10:44 am

checking out a file in the standalone client takes about 0.5 seconds.

-thomas

ian_sg · Post by **ian_sg** » Wed Apr 23, 2008 11:24 am

Okay I'd say we've ruled that out, then.

If you manually check a file out via the context menu in the solution explorer (in Visual Studio), is it just as slow?

I recall that you were working primarily (perhaps exclusively) with C++ projects. Are the files that are slow to check out in C++ projects?

thomas woelfer · Post by **thomas woelfer** » Thu Apr 24, 2008 4:30 am

>> If you manually check a file out via the context menu in the solution explorer (in Visual Studio), is it just as slow?

yes.

>> I recall that you were working primarily (perhaps exclusively) with C++ projects. Are the files that are slow to check out in C++

nope. the solution has c# and c++ projects. checkout in both kind of projects is very slow.

-thomas

ian_sg · Post by **ian_sg** » Thu Apr 24, 2008 6:39 am

We found a couple of reasons for slow performance checking out in sufficiently large solutions. I'm afraid there's no workaround I can offer today, but the performance will improve in the next maintenance release.

thomas woelfer · Post by **thomas woelfer** » Thu Apr 24, 2008 9:24 am

do you have a timeframe for the next maint. release yet ?

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-thomas

ian_sg · Post by **ian_sg** » Thu Apr 24, 2008 9:42 am

We haven't announced a release date for 4.1.2 yet.

However, if this issue is particularly troublesome I can make a client-only pre-release build available, probably next week.

Anybody experiencing this performance problem and interested in a pre-release build can email me: ian at sourcegear dot com.