I have a VB6 solution with about 15 projects. The compile time and build time runs into minutes. (Usually around 6 minutes)
Any ideas?
Create new virtual (XP) machine for compiling (install only needed software),
refresh your virtual machine every month or so (every compile pollutes registry),
disable any kind of antiviruses there (and probably on host PC),
use fastest available computer (like i5 + SSD + 4GB, cores count doesn't matter).
This way you could achieve 2-3 minutes or so. No way to reach 2-3 seconds.
And you don't have to compile entire solution every time - make your components binary (or at least project) compatible and compile only required projects.
One thing to try is to delete all .vbw files before compiling.
This file is the workspace file that remembers which form you had open last etc. You can safely delete it and it will be recreated for you.
This may make a difference if you have a lot of forms in your project.
I uninstalled Visual Studio 2010 and am building in around 75 seconds!
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I was using RAD 10.1 (Berlin) with no problem until now... Last month I applied Windows Creator Update and was occupied by other businesses... Now, each time I start the IDE, the loading progresses quickly up to "All design time packages loaded". At this time RAD studio sits on its splash window and consumes ~25% CPU. It takes at least 10 minutes before the IDE appears...
I've installed RAD 10.2 (Tokyo) and all provided patches, hoping for a fix... But the problem remains the same.
I can't go back to previous version of Windows 10 (more than 10 days after install).
I've already searched for an answer and Matthias E suggested that it was linked to https://quality.embarcadero.com/browse/RSP-17972.
But, in my case, the (very) long period stands only for IDE loading even when there is no project to (auto)load. I'm not talking about the time-period to load the project or to start project execution or even to start the application execution. Once the IDE has been loaded (after ~20'), everything (editing, compilation, building, debugging, execution) is working quickly...
I have become accustomed to never close the IDE once opened but this is particularly disturbing.
Could you help me ?
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For those who cannot access the link above, here is the content :
Details
Type: Bug Bug
Status: Open Open
Priority: Major Major
Resolution: Unresolved
Affects Version/s: 10.2 Tokyo, 10.1 Berlin Update 2
Fix Version/s: None
Component/s: Debugger, IDE (Development Environment), Libraries/Frameworks
Labels: None
Platform: Windows 10
Language Version: English
Edition: Professional
InternalID: RS-83785
InternalStatus: Open
Description
The debugger goes haywire for everyone in our organization with Creators and Tokyo/Berlin. Reverting to Windows Anniversary brings back the sanity.
Debugger problems with Tokyo/Berlin and Creators:
App takes a long time to load with modules loading and unloading and re-loading many times
IDE freezes
Memory consumption of bds.exe explodes, sometimes (> 3GB)
I will attached before and after screenshots showing how modules load and unload and re-load with Windows 10 Creators.
I presume these problems have the same root cause(s) than those in https://forums.embarcadero.com/thread.jspa?messageID=884382*
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Thanks to Lieven Keersmaekers's suggestion to use procmon, I was able to find the cause of the problem. RAD studio was heavily trying to access an enormous (128 GB) zip backup file (see : qed-electronic.com/Download/170808-ProcMonTrace.jpg ). I've simply moved the backup file to another location and RAD studio now starts as before. I have no idea why RAD wanted so much to access this file : none of my project files were located in this zip. The Windows Creator Update was apparently not guilty...
bds.exe must be launch with only one CPU !
CPU Affinity CPU=0
Thx to Javorszky
https://community.embarcadero.com/forum/installation-issues/1408-running-from-ide-freezes-windows-10#4173
To run quickly without entring TaskManager and change Setting CPUAffinity,
just create a batch file on the desktop:
cd "C:\Program Files (x86)\Embarcadero\Studio\19.0\bin\"
start /affinity 1 bds.exe
Why ?
"The reason for this is that most applications you run these days have been designed with multi-core processors in mind and will work with the operating system to distribute their operations as evenly as possible across all the available cores. "
see : https://www.techrepublic.com/blog/windows-and-office/change-the-processor-affinity-setting-in-windows-7-to-gain-a-performance-edge/
I have developed several (experimental and prototype) iOS apps using Xamarin and the new Visual Studio for Mac OS and the build-times intermittently take about 5-10 minutes on average. When starting a new project, build-times are fine. After a few changes in the source code while working on my apps (no specific changes). For no reason, build times start increasing to 5-10 minutes. I've tried all possible build-options (linking, no linking, SDK versions, new consigning certificate, etc..).
Upon investigation with the Activities-app (Mac OS, Sierra) i find that the "codesign" process is taking up 110% CPU and runs for as long as the build takes to complete.
Does anyone have any experience with this problem?
I have the same issue
First Try close Visual Studio then delete bin , obj from your project , finally start visual Build and Run
Second Try make sure you build in real device sometimes emulator cause trouble , how you make sure , if build success but deploy stuck many times
In my case, after wiping my PC and completely re-installing Windows 10, my build speeds increased by 2x.
Clean builds that used to take 2:20 minutes now only take 1:20 minutes, and incremental builds that used to take 40 seconds now only take 17 seconds.
Doing an incremental build + deploying to device used to take around 4 minutes. Now it takes only 55 seconds!
I'm not sure what was leading to this awful experience, but I'm glad it's not so terrible anymore (still slow though).
Go to your *.Android project => "Properties" => "Android Options" and set the following options:
Dex compiler: dx
Linking: None
This gives me a fast build speed
Im using ReSharper 6 in a Vs 2010 Pro environment and are doing some pretty large scale projects. Development box includes 2 x quadcore xeon with 24 GB ram. Project's are running on a PCI-E x4 SSD drive with 1GB/s read and write (for real). So, i suppose there is not much I can do to give the development machine more power.
The worst project is an Umbraco site with roughly 14000 files and folders and some pretty nasty css. I got everything from second long freezes to 30 sec VS freezout.
I've optimized VS2010 according to every guide available in VS optimization. Even enabled the 64bit memory enhancement but the problems continue.
I've even added the media library folder to the skip list.
Are there any other magic tricks someone would know of, please let me know!
gorohoroh's comment lead me to the solution, the 6.1 nightly dec 13 rocks!
Thanks
http://confluence.jetbrains.net/display/ReSharper/ReSharper+6.1+Nightly+Builds
I am using 7.0.1 and I find that it's killing my machine too.
However, it normally happens if I have more than one VS2010 open.
If it happens then the only way of fixing it I have found is to close VS, delete the DotSettings.user and the suo, and then reopen.
I'm using 6.1, and find that it slows down over time, and typing becomes really laggy. I've just discovered that when it starts to chug, if I go to "Tools..Options..ReSharper..General", then click on Suspend, then Resume - it goes back to it's initial speed.
I am aware that there are a couple of questions that look similar to mine, e.g. here, here, here or here. Yet none of these really answer my question. Here it goes.
I am building a modified version of a Chromium browser in VS2008 (mostly written in C++). It has 500 projects in one solution with plenty of dependencies between them. There are generally two problems:
Whenever I start debugging (press F5 or green Play button) for the first time in a session the VS freezes and it takes a couple of minutes before it recovers and actually starts debugging. Note that I have disabled building before running, because whenever I want to build my project I use F7 explicitly. I do not understand why it takes so long to "just" start a compiled binary. Probably VS is checking all the deps and making sure everything up-to-date despite my request not to build a solution before running. Is the a way speed this one up?
Every time I perform a build it takes about 5-7 minutes even if I have only changed one instruction in one file. Most of the time is consumed by the linking process, since most projects generate static libs that are then linked into one huge dll. Apparently incremental linking only works in about 10% of the cases and still takes considerably long. What can I do to speed it up?
Here is some info about my software and hardware:
MacBook Pro (Mid-2010)
8 GB RAM
dual-core Intel i7 CPU with HT (which makes it look like 4-core in Task Manager)
500GB Serial ATA; 5400 rpm (Hitachi HTS725050A9A362)
Windows 7 Professional 64-bit
Visual Assist X (with disabled code coloring)
Here are some things that I have noticed:
Linking only uses one core
When running solution for the second time in one session it is much quicker (under 2-3 seconds)
while looking up information on VS linker I came across this page:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/whs4y2dc%28v=vs.80%29.aspx
Also take a look the two additional topics on that page:
Faster Builds and Smaller Header Files
Excluding Files When Dependency Checking
I have switched to the component build mode for Chromium project, which reduced the number of files that need to be linked. Component build mode creates a set of smaller DLLs rather than a set of static libraries that are then linked into huge chrome.dll. Also I am using incremental linking a lot, which makes linking even faster. Finally linking for the second and subsequent times gets faster since necessary files are already cached in the memory and disk access is unnecessary. Thus when working incrementally and linking often, I get to as low as 15 seconds for linking of webkit.dll which is where I mostly change the code.
As for the execution it has same behavior as linking - it runs slow only for the first time and with every subsequent run it gets faster and faster until it takes less than 3-5 seconds to start the browser and load all symbols. Windows is caching files that are accessed most often into the memory.
Not sure what has happened on my dev machine but I can barely use visual studio 2010 these days. I have a copy of professional edition installed on a win7 pro x64 build running on top of a i5 M430 and 6 gigs of ram.
With only VS2010 open i've seen the process leak away to 600,000k+.
The editor is extremely slow. Every character I type sends the gui into "Not Responding" for 5 seconds and starting/stopping the debugger is a ~30 second operation.
I've done a repair install. No change.
I've removed productivity power tools and installed the perfwatson extension.
When I installed perfwatson the GUI sped up a bit while opening/loading a project. But the text editor still has an awful delay.
What else can I do? Harware rendering is off in my environment options.
an example of the slowness (literally): typing Height="1024" takes about 30 seconds to display in the text editor and do its update flash to go out of not responding. The word "Height=" takes 5 seconds to show. The intellesense and blank " " takes another 5 seconds. Each digit pops in every five seconds after that.
Needless to say even trying to edit existing work is a frustrating experience.
edit: rolled back one version on video driver. No noticeable changes after reboot.
edit: did some winforms projects today. No slow issues with this project type. Must be something with just wpf/sl projects.
edit 8/18/11: Took troublesome project to the production server. VS2010 editor works great there. Very snappy and responsive. Not at all slow. So it's not something inside my project. It's something in my machine. But a full out OS rebuild is something I can't just do now. Probably will start a bounty soon.
Delete the .sdf and .sou that have the same base file name as your solution file.
If your solution file is
c:\MyProject\project.sln
You should delete
c:\MyProject\project.sdf
c:\MyProject\project.sou
This solves 98% of the problems of slow VS.
These files contain intermediate information that is not important for the functionality of the solution and as time goes by they swell up and become bloated and fragmented. VS relies on these files for and if dealing with them is slow, everything is slow.
I know this is an old post but I have just had an issue where my visual studio project has been working fine for about 2 1/2 years and suddenly every time I clicked run I had to wait about 3 minutes and the same when clicking stop. I tried the old windows reboot but to no avail.
I found a post about deleting the projects .suo file (it was only 4MB).
I deleted the .suo file and everything is completely back to normal. I guess the file had corrupted or something.
Having a large number of breakpoints or a large number of files open can cause serious performance problems, but it sounds like your problems are worse than that...
A bios update and a intel chipset update on my machine solved nearly all my performance issues.
The slowness started to creep out into the OS and I was pegging the cpu at idle. I've got 4 cores and 8gb ram. It shouldn't do that. Now its happy at 8% load at idle.
Thanks to those that tried to help.
had the same problem. not sure what causes this ridiculous performance nightmare, but eventually i had to re-install windows. This same issue was posted on Microsoft forums but the best answer was to re-install VS or windows.