Will TFS performance be degraded by having too many user workspaces?
Our IT group observed that development has many workspaces leftover from users who have moved on, and would like development to clean them up. We currently have about 30 active users in TFS. There are probably 10 inactive users with workspaces.
I didn't think workspaces consumed much space in TFS. Will deleting these old workspaces really improve performance that much?
When you look at the statistics from Microsoft you will see that the volume your are talking about is really peanuts and can be handled easily: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/bharry/archive/2009/07/13/july-09-devdiv-dogfood-statistics.aspx
When you want to clean up your workspaces, consider using the Sidekicks tool of Attrice: http://www.attrice.info/cm/tfs/. There is a workspace sidekick which shows you all the workspaces. You can select the workspace on last access date (http://www.attrice.info/images/workspace_sk_screen.gif) - for example all workspaces not accessed last 3 months - and then delete those.
