Please help - Visual Studio SharePoint development environment is very slow

Friday, February 20, 2009

I run SharePoint development environment on virtual machine. Virtual machine has 2GB RAM and 30GB disk space. Also I have no complaints over processor (I can run here two usual ASP.NET development virtual machines parallel). All other Visual Studio projects are working well except those that use VSeWSS 1.2. Hard performance problems occur usually at these moments:

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7 Comments

I recommended upgrade disk storage from 1 SATA 7200 disk to two 10000 WD Velociraptor in stripped raid. Quad Core CPU is also vesy usefull :)

Rastislav - Friday, February 20, 2009 2:33:31 PM

Did you defrag the drive (in VMWare/MS VPC)? It may take a little time but it's worth it.

I've used InvirtusVMOptimizerPersonal and it's great.

Rachit - Friday, February 20, 2009 6:56:59 PM

Was it always this slow or did it just start?

Peter - Friday, February 20, 2009 8:54:01 PM

I don't think disk I/O is the problem, at least not according to the screenshot (96% CPU utilization). Check the Event Viewer and look at SharePoint logs to see what's keeping it so busy.

Joe Chung - Friday, February 20, 2009 9:18:12 PM

Peter, it happens at some moment when I'm using Visual Studio IDE. This is the main source of problem. SharePoint performance is not so hard to manipulate (unneeded timer jobs, changing log level etc).

DigiMortal - Friday, February 20, 2009 9:25:14 PM

I dont see Office in visual studio 2008, I want to develop approval workflow,

please help me

Dizzy - Wednesday, February 25, 2009 7:41:12 AM

I don't see SharePoint workflows in VS2008 either. I don't know what is the problem. In the same machine VS2005 works almost normally with workflows.

DigiMortal - Friday, February 27, 2009 12:10:45 PM

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