Sync of Large Archives in the Developer Studio Fails 

Problem Description

Symptom: Sync of large archives in IDE fails (maybe only sporadically). A message “CommunicationException: IO Error while communicating with server." or something similar is displayed.

Decision Roadmap

Prerequisites

None.

Main Tools

Visual Administrator

Analysis

Overview of the analysis process:

Access through Low-Bandwidth Network

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       1.      Check whether the user accesses CBS through low-bandwidth network.

User's PC is permanently under very high load (e.g. happens sometimes on night-make servers when at the same time large builds are running)

       2.      Check the "ServletsLongDataTransferTimeout" property of the engine in the Visual Admin → Server → HTTP Provider → Properties.

The value might be set too low, e.g. 10000 (10 seconds).

       3.      Increase the value to e.g. 300000 (5 minutes).

For the changes to take effect, the Engine needs to be restarted.

Additional Information

Administration of the Component Build Service Server