Visual Studio 2013 builds take 4 times as long when trying to build using either MSBuild or Incredibuild

Question

For several days I've been building my solution, with 30+ projects and have noticed that when building, rebuilding, or cleaning my solution it a very long time, about 4 times as long as other peers in my team. This occurred when trying to build using MSBuild as well as Incredibuild.

I checked Incredibuild connectivity to server and all the build configurations both on the Incredibuild agent settings as well as in the VS build settings, all values were as expected.

Answer 1

After scanning my computer for viruses and checking sufficient memory, I remembered that I had enabled the Fusion Log in the registry a couple of days earlier.

I solved my slow build time issues immediately once I changed my registry keys back.

The keys changed were:

• EnableLog Key set back to 0 (was 1 beforehand)
• ForceLog Key set back to 0 (was 1 beforehand)

Under the registry node:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Fusion

You can also turn the fusion logging off using the FusLogVw.exe tool found in the Windows SDK folder