Re: Performance issue for Project Server 2003

From: Nikolay (nbaranov_ANTI_SPAM__at_bcc.ru)
Date: 04/05/04 

Date: Mon, 5 Apr 2004 13:24:01 +0400

"David Gage" <dgage_NOSP@M_quantumpm.com> wrote in message
news:xn0dght3dugea400c@news.microsoft.com...
> Nick wrote:
>
> > Now we are migrating our project management system from MS Project
> > Server 2002 on W2k platform to Project server 2003 on Win2003 box.
> > Some preliminary experiments with real data shows serious problem
> > with performance on PS2003 with using Web Access.
> >
> > Loading time for big project on client side (about 1000 records)
> > against 2003 server approx to 10 times more than on PS2002 (W2k box).
> > The same take place for big resource list.
> >
> > Probably, this strange behavior concerned with ADO RDS recordset
> > transmission mechanism from server to client.
> >
> > We try to capture network traffic via Network Monitor and discovered
> > that data exchange take place in following manner:
> > each cycle begins from IP client request packet to server,
> > immediately after that occur HTTP server reply (some packets
> > according max packet size is 1500 byte) and WAITING time until next
> > cycle begin. The cycle length is 200 ms EXACTLY.
> >
> > Analogous monitoring against w2k-PS2002 box shows that WAITING time
> > for client requests
> > don't present and the same data amount goes to client much more
> > rapidly.
> >
> > Has anybody experienced similar problem?
> >
> > What can we do for resolving such trouble?
> >
> > Thanks for any suggestions,
> >
> > Nick
>
> Nick,
>
> You may want to try installing Project Server 2003 again and maybe to a
> different server. My considerable experience with 2003 shows that
> performance across the board is much better with 2003. Are you
> comparing the exact same projects? Are you connecting to each server
> from the exact same desktop?
>
> If you'd like, I would be willing to take a look at your database and
> let you know what times we see on our servers. We do Project Server
> hosting so I have several I can test against. Consider it a freebie
> since I think 2003 is so much better than 2002 and want to help you
> come to the same conclusion.
>
> David
>
> --
> David Gage
> Microsoft Project MVP
> QuantumPM

Thanks for reply, David

We tryed to create test project with huge number of tasks (about 1000) on
PS2002 and the same project on PS2003 on Win2003 box (it's important). You
can simply repeat our experiment trying this:
Create empty project via local MS Project client and populate its with tasks
like this
TestTask10000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
0000000000000000000000000001111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111
1111111111111111111111111111111111111111122222222222222222222222222222222222
22222222222
All other tasks properties leave by default. Using clipboard, create about
1000 tasks (1->2->4->8->16 etc).
Save this project on server and use PWA for opening it.
Create similar project on PS2002.
Try to measure PWA loading time for remote client (it's important) against
both servers and compare its.
In our case, loading time were 25 sec for PS2003 and less then 5 sec for
PS2002.
Of course, CPU power and memory amount are the same for both machines.

Thanks for your assistance,

Nick

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