VSS extremely slow over internet

VSS extremely slow over internet

• Iouri Simernitski - MSFT

  Hi,

  That comparison has been posted on this forum, too, but it seems that you have to read it "cum grano salis" http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=21541&SiteID=1

  Alin

  
  

• RobinLennox

  Thomas -

  Thanks for the question. Are you using Visual SourceSafe 6.0, or Visual SourceSafe 2005

  
  
  

• Pankaj Sabnis

  Roman,
  
  the vss internet plugin is not an option: it is simply to limited in functionality to be useful. the remote users must be able to delete and remove files, and they must be able to create new projedcts. all of this cannot be done using the internet plugin.
  
  i'm not running antivirus software on the server, and there is no antivirus software running on the remote clients.
  
  what other options are there to speed this up why didn't you implement the full feature set in the internet plugin if that is so much faster
  
  WM_QUERY
  thomas woelfer
  http://www.die.de/blog
  
  

• Fábio

  Mark,
  
  i'm using 2005 beta 2.
  
  WM_THX
  thomas woelfer
  

• SharpDreamer

  Hi,
  
  This was just the problem we experienced.  We finally had to give up using the VSS internet plugin.
  
  Currently we are evaluating the VSS addon tool SourceAnyWhere as a replacement for internet access. It runs very fast and stable over internet. So far we are very satisfied with this product.
  
  From my view, SourceAnyWhere is a good choice if the remote users require high performance for internet access.
  
  

• Divyajosephjohn

  This page:

  ms-help://MS.VisualSourceSafe.v80.en/dv_guides/html/e8ebb18b-64be-49bb-866b-f902bbc2a9ee.htm

  shows a similar architecture for SourceSafe LAN.  I believe you also call it the LAN Accelerator.  Is this also a way to get reasonable performance over a WAN

  Thanks.

  
  
  

• jloh

  Can SourceAnyWhere work without VSS
  
  Thanx.

  
  
  

• Cesar.NET

  In another thread, Microsoft's Alfredo Mendez says the VSS HTTP connection is "30 to 50%" faster.  This is nowhere near enough of an improvement, so I probably won't even try it.  I've used SourceOffSite a bit (it works pretty well) and VSS Connect even less (it seems to work and is really cheap at $30/user).

  Here is a review of various VSS remoting software packages:

  http://www.bettervssremoting.com/

  
  
  

• Pavel A.

  Mark, the image on the page is slightly incorrect. It misses a direct connection between SourceSafe LAN plug-in (ssscc.dll) and the VSS database. In LAN case, ssscc.dll uses the LAN Service to speedup certain operations, but it still makes direct accesses to the VSS database.

  Thomas, projects can be created with VSS Internet plugin by adding VS projects and solutions to source control, or by checking in files in subfolders. Also, Delete/Rename functionality is supported, at least propagation client->server (I think this was added post beta2). I have no idea what could cause such slowdowns (real-time antivirus, network drivers or beta2 bugs would be my guesses).

  Jones, SAW cannot work without VSS on the server (you'll need a VSS database). I believe on clients you don't need VSS, but for this you'll need to check with Dynasoft.

  Alin

   

  
  

• Benin

  Hello,
  
  I'm also experiencing very slow performance of VSS over internet. The version we use is VSS 2005 (beta 2).
  
  Is this caused by bugs in the beta version
  

• Tyax

  Thomas,

              Are you running any antivirus software on the client or the server If so do see any difference in performance if you do not use antivirus on both client and the server

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  You could use VSS Internet plug-in. It should make it much faster for DSL/Cable modem connection. Try using this if you can run IIS on the server.

  
  
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