Setup TFS 2010 on a pretty oldish server (actually an oldish desktop machine running server 2003 – single core, pre Core2 P4 so outdated…)
I’m finding a first adding and first getting of a website with about 700 files is quite slow (over 20 mins already over a VPN line).
Once you do that, the checkin / checkout operations are reasonably ok.
One thing I haven’t done yet is get one of the guys at work to make a change and for me at home to do a get latest. We were running VSS up to this and that operation used to be a killer!
Anyway, few questions:
1)We set it up as a basic installation on server 2008 express. Would there be any performance gain with full sql server 2008?
2) We have the option of moving the drive to a better core 2 machine that should be a lot faster – will that make any difference?
Or are we simply running into a typical slowness of TFS over a LAN (bearing in mind we as a team work mainly in the office but sometimes from home over VPN when the speed issue seems to get worse).
Just an update. We moved to a faster machine (since we were getting one anyway). The speed of the machine makes no difference.
The good news is, its only slow the first time you add a project to TFS or take it down from TFS.
Daily checkin / checkout is fine. Also, doing a get latest from home is much improved over VSS – it no longer does that horrible freeze while it spends 10 mins figuring out if files have changed.
It was worth the upgrade for this alone.