How do I speed up version control synchronisation?

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We have a huge Development project, and all code is in one model. With 15-20 developers working on this project, all having their own development server, we have a need to do a forced synchronisation every night, on all Development servers.

The problem is, this takes more than 4 hours!

With other nightly maintenance jobs running, we are having some time constraints.

How do I speed up a forced version control synchronisation?

I have noticed that every element is compiled several times, can this be avoided?

I'm willing to make changes to the version control synchronisation, if needed.

We are using Team Foundation Server.

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Jan S Dahlsgaard

Fujitsu Denmark

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Martin Dráb 239,040 Most Valuable Professional on at

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Hi Jan, please separate tags with comma and words with spaces and don't prefix tags with #. You attached a single tag #TFS #VersionControl #Speed, which clearly wasn't your intention.

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Increase your RAM. because its 70% of synchronizing is ram through aos runtime kernel.

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Why do you need a forced synchronization of everything? It shouldn't be necessary.

Do developers have pending changes overnight? (It's usually the case, but some teams require developers to check in all changes every day, which potentially allow code distribution by model files.)

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We do a forced synchronisation, because it is our experience, that deleted elements are not always deleted, if we don't use Force.

Developers have pending changes overnight.

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If I remember it right, VCS synchronization always switched compiled level to 4. Getting rid of this should speed things up.

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Doubling RAM (8->16) has no impact whatsoever.

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Switching Diagnostic level to No warnings has reduced the time spend from approx. 4 hours to 2.5 hours.

Helps a lot, but I would like a solution, where compiling is disabled during synchronization. The synchronization should then compile all synchronized elements as the last step.

Anyone has a solution for this?

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I don't know how to disable the compiling during syncing, however you might be able to speed up compiling just a little more by tweaking windows defender.

I wrote it in my blog:

http://axrotterdam.blogspot.nl/2017/04/quick-and-easy-performance-tweak-for.html

*Just saw that you're devving on AX 2012, that makes my suggestion less relevant.

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