We have a strange problem with Access. In our plant we have multiple welders running LabVIEW software. Before each weld the operators scan bar codes on their badges and a tag on the part being welded.
The data from the scans goes to Access databases to verify the operator is authorized to operate the machine and to get information on the part being welded.
After a Windows update a few months ago this process slowed WAY down. One of those database queries could take 20 seconds or more.
We tried using more powerful computers and better network connections, neither helped.
One thing that we did find that helped was running Microsoft’s Office scrub tool, “Microsoft Support and Recovery Assistant”. This removes all traces of Office. We then install AccessRuntime_x86 (Access Runtime 2013) so our LabVIEW based software can work with the Access databases.
This restores the systems to normal operation for a week or so, then we need to run it again.
We’ve also found that we can just rerun the Access installer and use the “Repair” option and that helps.
The computers all have i5 processors, 8 or 16GB of RAM, most have SSDs and are running Windows 10 64 Enterprise.
Any advice or suggestions would be greatly appreciated!
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I am currently running Gitlab CE. I have an issue where it is constantly gaining space,
There is 1 current user (myself). But sitting idle it gains 20gb of usage in under an hour for no apparent reason (not pushing or pulling or even using it, the service is simply live and idle) until eventually it fills my drive (411gb of free space before the installation of Gitlabs. takes less than 24hrs to fill it.).
I cannot locate the source of the issue, google seems to like referring me to size limitations, and that is fine if I needed to increase that which I don't, i have tried to disable some metrics and the safety features such as "Health checks" in an attempt to stop it from doing this but with no success
I have to keep reinstalling it to negate the idle data usage. There is a reason for me setting it up, but I cannot deploy this the way it is. Have any of you experienced this issue? Is there a way around this?
The system current running it: Fedora 36 running the installation on a 500GB SSD, 8 core Ryzen 7 Processor.
any advice to solve this problem would be great. Please note I am not an expert.
Answer to this question:
rsync was scheduled automatically and was in a loop.
Removed rsync, reinstalled it, rescheduled rsync to go on my schedule, removed the older 100 or so back ups and my space has been returned.
for those that are running rsync, just check that it is not running too closely and is detecting that its own backups are there. as the back ups i found were corrupted.
I have a connection between Excel 2016 and SQL Server 2008 R2 and use it to load some queries into different sheets.
Everything used to work perfect, but this morning I started getting huge delays when refreshing the queries - Excel goes to not responding, freezes, and around 30 secs later, finally, refreshes. It drives me crazy, because this happens for every single query and I am refreshing around 40 of them...
My colleagues have the same file and do not experience any delay.
I am running Windows 10, they are running both Windows 10 and Windows 7.
I did a system restore from last week (when it used to work fine) - same behavior...
Any help would be appreciated...
If you have restored your PC, the only elements unchanged are, as far as I understand, the contents of the sheets or something you cannot reset.
If your colleagues have the same files, with the same software and no problem, consider checking your hardware. The factory reset having done nothing, and the problem not coming from the files itself, only your phisical machine remains hypothetically faulty.
Also, take a look at the performances while the queries are being executed by using the Task Manager (in its Advanced Mode). This might give you a general idea of what is going on.
Try executing queries on another server/db if you can and compare the results.
After trying several things including update of drivers, system restore, new odbc setup, restarting the SQL server services and getting no results, I decided to restart the server itself and the problem is now gone...
I can only assume there was some bug with the SQL server itself.
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We've recently upgraded (migration path) from TFS/Sharepoint to TFS2010/Sharepoint2010.
Most things went well, but there were a few issues that became immediately apparent.
TFS was noticeably slower (as pointed out by the entire dev team). Basically all "get latest", and query operations were more sluggish. Starting VS2010 SP1 is also really slow with loading all the projects (40+) on my machine. A refresh after that is not normally a problem. Even though other people may only have 3-4 projects open at the time, they too noticed the "working..." delay.
Sharepoint was definitely much slower. The "Show Portal" takes forever to load, and the basic editing is slower too.
Work items occasionally "time out" for no reason, and end up in a "connection lost" error. It's normally while creating a new work item, and a redo of the same command works fine. It happens even during bulk work item creation, but the timing is random.
The server runs on Windows 2008, 12 GB, and plenty of CPU power (QuadCore). The IIS connectionTimeout is set to 2 minutes (default), I've played with the MinBytesPerSecond which is set to 240 by default (I've set it to 42 as well, but no joy), and I understand that VS 2010 in general might be a bit slower than its 2008 counterpart, but even then. No processors are maxed out. There are lots of MSSQLSERVER info logs in the Event Viewer though (I just noticed this - not sure if this is a problem). I've also changed the defaultProxy setting in the devenv.exe file - no joy there either.
It's too late for a downgrade. ;)
Has anyone experienced similar problems after the upgrade?
I would love to hear from ya! :o)
We experienced performance issues after upgrading from TFS 2008 to 2010 but it is much better now. We have learned that the Antivirus and SQL Server configurations are critical. In a virtualized environment store performance is key too. We have about 100 TFS users in a 2 tier Server setup.
The SQL server has it's default memory setting set as follows:
1 - SQL Server max memory 2TB
2 - Analysis Services max memory 100%
With those settings, our 8GB SQL machine was unusable.
Now we have:
1 - SQL Server max memory 4GB
2 - Analysis Server Max memory 15%
Now the performance is ok but not great.
The Antivirus Exclusions have to configured too. Basically excluded all the data and temp directories.
As our TFS setup is virtualized we are in the process of adding more storage hardware to have better disk performance. That should definitely solve our performance issues.
Simon
are all components installed on one machine? Is SQL layer also installed on that machine? Is the machine virtualized?
It's always better to install SQL layer on physical hardware than installing it virtually. SharePoint 2010 requires 4 gigs of RAM. To ensure that SharePoint is usable you should size the WFE with at least 8 gigs of RAM.
Our TFS was also slow with 4 gigs so I've added another 4 gigs. With this setup the entire environment is right now really fast.
Let's summarize
SQL: physical installation w/ 12GB RAM, Quad Core (duplicated for failover)
SharePoint: virtualized w/ 8GB RAM, Quad Core
TFS: virtualized w/ 8GB RAM, Quad Core
Both SharePoint and TFS are generating heavy load on the database. I've a showcase machine running on my Elitebook as HyperV image. The image has about 12 gigs of ram and is running on an external SSD but it is a lot slower than our productive environment.
I hope my thoughts and setups are helpful.
Thorsten
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The problem is at my job, we have "okay" hardware for the developers, laptops running Windows XP (I know) with dual core 2.3 Ghz processor, 2GB of memory and 60 GB hard disk #7200 rpm however, the amount of virus scan and security agents and big brother software on these make them unusable when scans are running. My company insists on running full disk virus scans every monday and "smart scans" every other day.
I appreciate the concern for viruses as much as the next guy, however it is hindering our work and we are looking for a new setup that allows the developers to work unimpeded by scans, yet provides virus protection et al that the company is looking for.
Any suggestions?
a) Try to change the scanning frequency/schedule - the machines are presumably running on-access scanning, so don't need to be doing scheduled scans.
b) If the policy is immutable; profile the machine to see what resource is being exhausted. It's probably the disk - laptops tend to have poor disks, and both AV-scheduled-scan and development/compilation tend to stress IO. So look at putting the fastest disks in the laptops - or even SSD.
Couldn't you just schedule the scans for when the computers aren't in use? This would lead to a higher power consumption, but would save you the burden of suffering through the scans.
You could also change the priority of the scanning applications so that they only use up idle CPU and IO time.
Have you looked at Avast? Avast.com I use the free home edition on all the computers around the house running Windows and have not noticed any slowdown and/or viruses since using it. They also have a professional/enterprise version that might work for you.
In addition, what about using Firefox with Adblock and NoScript for your web browsing?
For eaach BizTalk application we have a setup.bat, which creates the BizTalk application, creates file drops, build code, gacs, registers resources, creates ports -using vcscripts- and applies bindings. We also have a cleanup.bat which performs the opposite of setup.bat
These scripts are then run via nant, and finally used by cruisecontrol.net. These scripts allow us to setup a BizTalk app on a machine with BizTalk and the latest source and tools downloaded.
What do others do to "bootstrap" BizTalk applications in a repeatable and automated manner ?
I've seen BizTalk nant tasks, are they faster than vbscript ?
The setup. bat runs slower on our BizTalk build machine by a factor of about 3 ! Disk, CPU, Memory, paging are all comfortable. A full build/deploy is taking 2 hours before any tests have run - have about 20 BizTalk apps and assorted C# services, custom components. Aside from a new machine, or rebuild - our build machine has 4 gig ram, dual hyper threaded cores and about 5 years old server- Any ideas ? What are you build machines like.
Michael Stephenson has written some great blogs on automated BizTalk builds, take a look at link text
We have used a utility which Mike posted to codeplex which will create an MS build script for a BizTalk application - this has worked very well for us. You can find this at link text
We use NAnt as well for our BizTalk deployment. Specifically, we use a combination of calling the BizTalk related NAntContrib tasks (which all begin with bts) and using the <exec> task to call the command line btstask.exe directly.
At some level, they are all using the same underlying technology to talk to the BizTalk server, so it's hard to say whether NAnt is faster than something like VB.
I will say that in my experience BizTalk appears to be a resource hog. Since it's hard to change that, the only thing we do have control over is the amount of resources we give it. Therefore, if builds are taking too long, and one has the time/money to do so, throw bigger and badder hardware at it. This is generally the cheapest way as the amount of time us developers put into making sub-marginal improvements to build times can end up costing way more than hardware. For example, we've noticed that moving to 8GB of memory can make all the difference, literally transforming the entire experience.
I just create an MSI through the BizTalk Administrator. I keep my binding information separate from the MSI, so developers need to bind ports by importing the binding files, but that is easy.
In cases where assemblies need to be deployed into the gac, I use a batch file that runs gacutil, then install the MSI and finally bind the ports.
This approach is easy to maintain and, more importantly, easy for others to understand and troubleshoot.
In regards to BizTalk being a resource hog, first look at SQL Server and make sure that you limit it to some reasonable amount of memory (it takes whatever it can by default - which is usually most available memory). That one change alone makes a significant difference.
You should also consider using only minimal software during development - that means disabling the anti-virus or excluding directories from getting uselessly scanned when developers compile and deploy. Avoid using MS Word, Messenger, etc on systems that have little RAM (2Gb or less) while developing a BizTalk solution.
On developers' workstations, enable the BizTalk messagebox archive and purge job as explained here:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa560754.aspx
Keeping the database small saves valuable disk space which can help to improve overall performance.
There are quite a few solutions out there -
Rob Bowman mentioned Michael Stephenson's msbuild generator
Also on codeplex you can find another framework by Scott Colestock,Thomas Abraham and Tim Rayburn
There's also a minor addition by me palying with Oslo, but that's not half as mature as these two, but it does use the SDC tasks, which is a great starting point if you wish to create your own msbuild based solution.