VSS Get Latest Version running very SLOW

FinalBuilder Discussion
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I am running FB 7.0.0.629.

Inside my FB project my VSS Get Latest Version action takes a little over 6 hours to complete.

On the same machine, if I open Microsoft Visual Source safe and "Get Latest" on the exact same branch of code it takes 26 minutes to complete.

Any thoughts on why I would see this large disparity?

As soon as the action begins to run the log shows a lengthy pause where it is executing ss.exe but nothing appears to be happening. 

If I run a "Get" directly from VSS it immediately begins to download the source.

Any help would be appreciated.

 

 

 

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I believe this may just be the case that the vss command line is very slow. We’ve had other users report the same issue before, and they see the same slowness when running vss from a batch file as they do with finalbuilder.

I know this doesn’t solve your problem, but if at all possible I’d highly recommend moving to a more modern version control system (such as mercurial or git). We use mercurial here for new work and I’m more and more impressed with it every day, and performance is excellent (even over my slow vpn connection from home).

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Thank you....your response seems consistent with what I am seeing as well.

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Discovered issue was caused by IT moving our VSS DB to a 2008 R2 server.  This did not cause any problems if the vss client was run from a physical pc.  It did however, cause a major decrease in performance if the vss client was run from a virtual machine.

No idea why this is the case but we are moving the VSS DB back to 2003 Server so all is well.

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Thanks for letting us know.