Our windows cleacase is getting very slow and it takes more than one hour to get down to the user's stream and to create a view. In what way we can boost the speed of clearcase windows? we have tried to make the unused stream to "obsolete" but it didn't work so well.
Obsoleting streams won't change anything: ClearCase would still have to manage the same number of UCM object (it might only increase the display of projects in the ClearCase project explorer).
Various reasons can explain performance issues on Windows/ClearCase, depending on the version of Windows and of ClearCase:
MiniFilterMask key)One way of detecting performance issue is by using the Rational ClearCase Reports (Windows only), which can help keep track of the performance of commands/scripts you would execute on a regular basis.
You can also mitigate the performance issue by setting up another Vob server/View server (with its own registry server) in order to register a subset of the same vobs, and see if the speed improves then: make sure those servers are on the same box than the vobs they are referring to, in order to register only vobs with a local path (and not a network parh, which can be slower to access).