Why is vs2010 so slow lately? Its almost unusable

Question

Not sure what happened on my dev machine, but I can barely use visual studio 2010 these days. I have a copy of a professional edition installed on win7 pro x64 build, working on top of the i5 M430 and 6 gigabytes.

With VS2010 open, I saw the process flow to 600,000 k +.

The editor is very slow. Each character that I entered sends gui to "Not Responseing" for 5 seconds, and starting / stopping the debugger is an operation in 30 seconds.

I performed the repair. Without changes. I uninstalled the productivity tools and installed the perfwatson extension.

When I installed perfwatson, the GUI got a little faster when opening / loading the project. But the text editor still has a terrible delay.

What else can I do? Rendering is disabled in my environment settings.

an example of slowness (literally): typing Height = "1024" takes about 30 seconds to display in a text editor and make your own flash update to exit the response. The word "Height =" takes 5 seconds. Intellesense and blank "" takes another 5 seconds. Each digit appears every five seconds after that.

Needless to say, even trying to edit an existing work is a disappointing experience.

edit: rollback one version of the video driver. After rebooting, there are no noticeable changes.

edit: did some winforms projects today. No slow problems with this type of project. There should be something only with wpf / sl projects.

edit 8/18/11: There was an unpleasant project on the production server. VS2010 editor works great. Very fast and responsive. Not at all slow. So this is not something inside my project. This is something in my car. But a complete rebuild of the OS is something I just can't do now. Probably, distribution will begin soon.

Answer 1

Updating the BIOS and updating the Intel chipset on my machine resolved almost all my performance problems.

Slowness began to creep into the OS, and I was tied to the processor idling. I have 4 cores and 8 GB of rams. He should not do that. Now he is happy with an 8% load at idle.

Thanks to those who tried to help.

Answer 2

Delete .sdf and .sou , which have the same base file as the solution file.
If your solution file

 c:\MyProject\project.sln 

You must remove

 c:\MyProject\project.sdf c:\MyProject\project.sou 

This solves 98% of the problems of slow VS.
These files contain intermediate information that is not important for the functionality of the solution, and over time they swell and become bloated and fragmented. VS relies on these files, and if working with them is slow, everything happens slowly.

Answer 3

Having a large number of breakpoints or a large number of open files can cause serious performance problems, but it looks like your problems are worse than this ...

Answer 4

I know this is an old post, but I just had a problem when the project of my visual studio worked fine for about 2 1/2 years, and suddenly every time I pressed the start button, I had to wait about 3 minutes, and then same thing when you press the stop button. I tried reloading old windows, but to no avail.

I found a message about deleting .suo project files (it was only 4 MB).

I deleted the .suo file and everything completely returned to normal. I think the file is corrupted or something like that.

Answer 5

had the same problem. not sure what this ridiculous nightmare is causing, but in the end I had to reinstall windows. The same problem was posted on Microsoft forums, but the best answer was to reinstall VS or Windows.