Re: Performance issue for Project Server 2003

From: David Gage (MVP) (dgage_NOSP_at_M_quantumpm.com)
Date: 04/06/04 

Date: Tue, 06 Apr 2004 00:37:01 -0700

Nick,

I have actually done performance testing with 1000, 2500, 5000, and
10000 rows for a client comparing 2002 with 2003. 2003 was definitely
faster but not by a huge amount. As you get more rows, the data is
actually moved over fairly quickly. The thing that takes the largest
time is the building of the gantt chart view. And if you have many
predecessor and successor tasks with lines drawn between them, this
will take much longer because the drawing of lines takes a long time.
In this case, the speed of the client machine is very important.

As I said, I have done quite a bit of empirical testing in this area
and I stand by the fact that 2003 is faster than 2002. I actually did
the testing on two different sets of Project Server systems with two
different Terminal Servers for the front end.

I would recommend trying your Project Server 2003 install again or look
closer at the machine and network. They really should be fairly close
performance wise with the edge going to 2003.

Good luck.

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
> TestTask10000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
> 000000
> 0000000000000000000000000001111111111111111111111111111111111111111111
> 111111
> 1111111111111111111111111111111111111111122222222222222222222222222222
> 222222 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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