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November '07 DevDiv Dogfood Statistics

November 6, 2007 Nov 6, 2007 11/6/07

Brian Harry

It's been a while since I wrote about the DevDiv TFS statistics.  Sorry about that, I guess it's just been a really busy summer.  Usage continues to climb steadily and we are just now beginning the rollout to the rest of DevDiv.  The next version of VS/.NET will be built entirely using TFS - no more usage of the older internal ...

August DevDiv Dogfood Statistics

August 7, 2007 Aug 7, 2007 08/7/07

Brian Harry

I think I missed posting dogfood stats last month - sorry about that.  It's just been so busy with all of the recent releases going on, it's been difficult to find time to do it. The “big change” in the past couple of months is that the Visual Studio central build lab is really making progress in enabling support for TFS (rather than ...

Update on adoption of TFS at Microsoft

July 24, 2007 Jul 24, 2007 07/24/07

Brian Harry

Our internal adoption team produced an update on our status this week and I thought I'd share the results with you.    We're now up to 21 TFS instances in production, hosting a total of 734 projects about 5,600 users.  2 of those instances are running an Orcas Beta 2 build.  3 are running a very early build of Rosario...

June DevDiv Dogfood Statistics

June 20, 2007 Jun 20, 2007 06/20/07

Brian Harry

Orcas Beta 2 has been deployed on our dogfood server for about a month now and has been running quite well with very few patches.  We've been focusing primarily on cleaning up the event log and making sure we fix any bugs generating event log entries, making appropriate eventlog entries clear and actionable and removing spurious ones. I ...

May DevDiv Dogfood Statistics

May 16, 2007 May 16, 2007 05/16/07

Brian Harry

It's been a pretty uneventful month on our Dogfood server.  I almost decided not to post about it but I figured what the heck.  The most exciting thing is that we have our Orcas Beta 2 dogfood server upgrade happening this weekend.  This should be an indication to you that we think our Orcas Beta 2 server is approaching ready.&...

Dogfood I/O Analysis

April 18, 2007 Apr 18, 2007 04/18/07

Brian Harry

I've been falling so far behind on everything I'm supposed to do I just can't stand it.  Today is my day to try to catch up on blogging.  I promised I'd follow up on the dogfood I/O analysis from the Orcas upgrade.  Well, I got the results a week or two ago and I just can't find anything particularly useful.  The problem is...

April DevDiv Dogfood Statistics

April 18, 2007 Apr 18, 2007 04/18/07

Brian Harry

It’s now been over a month since the DevDiv dogfood server upgrade to Orcas bits.  We’ve continued to poke and prod at the server and make patches as we identify issues.  The rate has slowed down from that first hectic week of several patches a day to about 1 a week or so now.  Overall performance is much better and ...

Orcas Dogfood Upgrade – I/O Statistics Delayed

March 20, 2007 Mar 20, 2007 03/20/07

Brian Harry

We got some I/O statistics on Friday night.  Unfortunately it was not what I was looking for.  The version control drives were omitted from the collection and there was much less sproc analysis than I expected.  The ops team is going back to replan what analysis they are going to do and will try again.  I'll let you know ...

Orcas Dogfood Upgrade – CPU Utilization

March 16, 2007 Mar 16, 2007 03/16/07

Brian Harry

I think we've got enough data now that we can put a stake in the ground about where we stand on CPU utilization improvements.  We've still got a bit more tuning and improvements to make but it's probably within 10% of where it will turn out. We've made less progress investigating the regressions this week than I expected - too many other ...