Opening a sandbox is slow, what to do?

[yethape]

I am experiencing slow performance in opening a sandbox. What can be done to resolve this?

[MichaelChatel]

Hi Yogesh,

I'd suggest opening up a Support case to look into this, as there could be a few different factors that could be causing this.  Your local client/memory/machine, the size of the project that the sandbox is being created/opened against, server performance/tuning, network, etc.

[yethape]

does clearing the cache help?

or I need to increase the value for cache?

[MichaelChatel]

Are you seeing any cache related errors or warnings in the server's or client's log file?  If so, maybe it could be contributing to that, but if not, I doubt that is related.

[llambert]

Also do you need to create a sandbox on the entire project or perhaps just create your sandbox on a subproject

[DanR.]

Agree 100% with Lance.  Based on past experience as well as from PTC support.  You should use sub-projects instead of folders.  This way you sync only the sub-projects you request and do not sync needless folders of unneeded source files.

[kthierer]

Following thread might be also interesting here

in MKS Source : Transforming a folder in subproject

Some time ago I came to the idea to generate a batch file for this with following approach:

gen_folder_as_project_batch.bat
set FOLDERNAME=src si print -R --revision=:member --format="si addmemberfromarchive --cpid=:none --archive \"{archivename}\" --revision={memberrev} --createsubprojects \"{membername}\" & pause \n" --noHeaderFormat --noTrailerFormat --filter=file:"%FOLDERNAME%/*" > "%FOLDERNAME%_ as_project.bat"

Please review yourself.

This example will generate "src_as_project.bat"

HTH Jürgen