Re: Max task in MSPS Project plan = ?
From: rroszko (rroszko_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 10/29/04
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Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2004 17:09:02 -0700
Network control is beyond my control. (I already have several requests into
the NOC, Server Team, and Infrastructure to monitor, upgrade, etc. and the
requests are approximately 0.0000% active...)
Thanks anyway...
"Gary L. Chefetz (MVP)" wrote:
> rroszko:
>
> If you're getting the same performance on your workstation then there can be
> a lot of things going on. Congested networks are certainly a problem, but it
> takes more than a casual news group post to begin to determine where the
> bottleneck is occurring. The fact that you can cut the open times by 2/3 by
> switching network segments says a lot, don't you think?
>
> --
>
> Gary L. Chefetz, MVP
> "We wrote the book on Project Server
> http://www.msprojectexperts.com
>
> -
> "rroszko" <rroszko@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:CFDDE9E2-49BD-4DE9-8119-BDB5B2131708@microsoft.com...
> > Gary,
> >
> > Thanks for the reply. Here are the specs to everything.
> >
> > The network is 100BaseT but we (the PMs and I) are
> > apparently on a congested segment which of course doesn't
> > help. I called network but the short of it is they said
> > oh darn, nothing we can do... Next:
> >
> > There are two servers (IIS and SQL). Both run on Dual
> > 2.8GHz P4 Xeon HT (which makes the box look like 4 CPUs
> > instead of 2, of course - does that actually help or hinder?)
> > Each box has 2G RAM. The SQL server is standard license, so
> > I can't add more RAM. I don't think I can convince the client to buy Ent.
> > SQL at $20K.
> >
> > In my opinion, we need to rebuild the servers from scratch.
> > The original people added users via Resource Pool and PWA
> > and/or both. I don't like it when that happens. They also
> > did 'renames' of projects thru the system. I don't care for that either.
> > The MSPS view processor hung so even though
> > the PMs posted data eveyday, the resources only saw the
> > old information.
> >
> > I would like to move the view processor off to a 3rd server.
> > We don't use SharePoint now, but they are thinking of
> > loading up on Doc, Issues and Risks for each plan. That would be a strain
> > also. Any thoughts there?
> >
> > The workstations vary, of course, but PMs are on old clunkers - PIII with
> > 512M RAM. I have a P4 2.8G w/1G RAM but the processing doesn't improve
> much
> > when I try to open/upload their plans when I tested it on my 'puter.
> > I remember in the old days when 286's were still on the
> > net, their speed deggraded the entire net (but that was also
> > during the hub days, not switches which we are using...
> > Thoughts?
> >
> > Another example, PWA of the huge plan takes 90 secondes to show up on all
> of
> > our PCs. When I go to a sperate network segment, it take 30 seconds. If
> I
> > do it via TS right on the IIS server, it takes 5 seconds. While upgrading
> > the PCs
> > would help, any thing else we can do?
> >
> > Thanks for everything,
> >
> > Rick
> >
> >
> >
> > "Gary L. Chefetz (MVP)" wrote:
> >
> > > Rick:
> > >
> > > It sounds like the Project Server system isn't engineered very well. The
> > > system should be able to handle the workload you describe. What are the
> > > specs on the workstations? With large plans like this, fast processors
> and
> > > lots of RAM is a big factor.
> > >
> > > --
> > >
> > > Gary L. Chefetz, MVP
> > > "We wrote the book on Project Server
> > > http://www.msprojectexperts.com
> > >
> > > -
> > > "rroszko" <rroszko@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> > > news:D1F86602-48BA-46AC-BF31-DC78E7185E33@microsoft.com...
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > On MS Project Server in Enterprise mode, what is the
> > > > maximum size it can handle, meaning how many tasks and
> > > > how many resources?
> > > >
> > > > Our setup is two servers (MS Project w/IIS and SQL
> > > > Server Standard Edition). Our resource pool is
> > > > approximately 1000 resources.
> > > >
> > > > We have 3 PMs and they created jumbo plans. One is 2000
> > > > tasks. One is 2500 tasks. The huge one is even more
> > > > insane - it has 4300 tasks with 400 resources assigned
> > > > for 6 months duration.
> > > >
> > > > There are only 4 plans on the server and to say it's
> > > > choking is an understatement. It takes 30 minutes
> > > > to "Colloborate, Publish, All Info" for any of these
> > > > projects.
> > > >
> > > > I told the client that these plans are too gargantuan
> > > > for MS Project Server to handle. Am I wrong? I said
> > > > plans should be 500 tasks-ish up to 1000 tasks if you
> > > > must, and limit it to a max of 100 resources or so. I
> > > > mean, I have never seen such huge plans with such
> > > > major resource loading...
> > > >
> > > > Can anyone tell me what the Microsoft recommended
> > > > maximums are (as well as any third pary info)
> > > > on this?
> > > >
> > > > Thanks a bunch,
> > > >
> > > > Rick
> > > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
>
>
>
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