Collaboration slows unity to a halt?

So lately after I downloaded version 5.5.2f the 2D unity editor has been running so slow it's unusable, like, I literally cannot use it. I couldn't figure it out until I created a new project, it ran completely fine until I enabled collaboration, anyone have an idea why? And this new project has ZERO files, brand new, nothing in it.

Please help!

And yes, I have been trying everything to fix it.

 

Right now I'm on windows 10, my internet connection is completely fine, I've disabled my firewall on Norton and other protection services that come with it, nothing different happens.. I'm not exactly sure what a cache server is, so i'm pretty positive i'm not using one.

My PC specs are also not the problem.

 

I can concur.
There are so many blocking threads in collaborate that render Unity useless for me up to 6 minutes at a time.
1) It constantly loses my project settings and I have keep refreshing my access (2-3 times a day)
2) launching unity takes 6 minutes as soon as Collab takes over (Im a DSL user)
3) viewing checkin history (5-6 minute wait) locks unity
4) try to play a scene after getting latest, locks unity 10-15 minutes and normally just crashes.

Im on Windows 10
5.5.1f1

 

1) Im not sure what is getting lost, but I have to constantly "wake up" collaborate. I'm never signed out of Unity, so my login is still remembered, but all of the services will be listed as off, and Unity wants me to refresh my access.
3) we are in like the 280s with our history, no Unity is completely locked
4) our project is too large to send to you in a bug report especially from my DSL connection

 

If i may ask, how do i launch using that flag?

 

I got the log for it, how do I DM you? Very new at this whole thing sorry about it haha
Just start a conversation and copy paste the whole thing? hmm, lmao

 

Same Problem Here.
- Unity 5.5.2f
- OSX 10.11.6

Unusably slow
- saving / closing a project can take up to 30 minutes.
- dragging to inspector, etc. almost not possible.

Possibly related to collab, I enabled it for one project that has the symptoms now but I kept it disabled for a new test project which shows the same bad behavior.

activity monitor - unity 100% cpu time on quitting unity, 50 threads --- for last 10 minutes...and counting...

and it crashed the whole system. _windowsserver was something i noticed in the activity monitor as well, could this be related?

 

I dont think its anything like mine, mine only happens when collab is enabled, sounds like yours is all of the time, and my cpu doesnt get maxed out. Sure does suck to have all of this happen haha

 

I have the same problem and have been having this problem since January. Collab loses its connection several times a day and each time I refresh it and log on again, I have to wait several minutes, even though my specs are very high and my Internet connection is 120mbit up and 50mbit down. I might turn on the collabeventlog if you still need logs for this. I must have spent hours waiting on this now. Sometimes I even had to restart Unity. Now I am using Unity 5.6 and its still a major problem. I am considering just turning it off, since I am guessing without Collab this would take less than 2 minutes each time.

 

After trying collab once, then seeing its not very good and just slows down unity, I disabled it. This meant that almost every time I edit a script and come back to unity, it freezes. Every second time I play test, it freezes. This only happened after using Collab. Now I am forced to go back to collab and try again. Its taken an hour to restart it. Still frozen, waiting to test. Its like my poor project is held hostage.

 

I can confirm that once you enable Collaberate, you are in for a lot of waiting. Disabling the service doesn't help, I assume it's still doing things under the hood.

 

Awe man, that's a lot of questions. Ok, here goes:

Unity: 5.6.0f3
Project Size: 3.0 GB
No Plugins(?): I assume you don't mean editor extensions at what not.

Edit 1:
Ok so I had a crash earlier and had to restart Unity... after restarting it seems that everything is good now? No slow downs so far, will keep an eye on it and report anything.

Edit 2: Spoke too soon. Slow down is still present.

 

Some of the issues are:

• Editor freeze when you save the project. It will freeze for 2-3 seconds.
• Opening Collab menu is really slow.
• Sometimes the publish operation loses connection to the server mid publish and hangs, it ends up notifying you about the error only after you click the Collab menu or if you do something with the Services tab (it seems to refresh something)

 

Oddly enough, I shut the machine down at the end of the day, started up this morning and everything is back to normal. Project saving seems to be OK. The Collab menu is mostly working, it can be slow, but not annoyingly so. Still loses connection from time to time, but regains it when I quickly enough. Other than that, the only thing I can think of is that when I launch Unity, the Collab service is disabled. Doesn't seem to stay enabled when I close the project. Maybe that's intended? Or maybe I'm turning it off and not remembering? I will notify if anything starts acting up again, and I'll try to document it. This is the first project that I've used it in, so I'm not used to it fully.

 

Thanks, have been busy with the project and forget to check back here. I will try using that log setting. I am using quite a few plugins and such. Its 13 gb with cache files, metadata and everything, so the whole folder. I am using several plugins and assets... UFPS, Inventory Pro, ProCore, Quest System Pro. I have also begun using URG and UMA now. Oh, and if you mean plugins that are not editor extension, then I do not think I am using any. I am Visual Studio 2015. My work is often very slow now, because I have to expect Unity taking like 5-10 min+ every startup before it stops being frozen.

I am guessing it might help moving it to an SSD, but then I would be risking running out of space.

 

If it is doing this, then I think one thing that could work, is exporting everything in the project to a package, then make a new project and important it all. Pretty sure that if you want to get rid of Collab, this ought to help.

As for Collab sometimes running fast... I am pretty sure it depends on the server load at Unity, where ever it is the Collab server is running.

@ryanc-unity I have gotten the log. I have submitted an error report and added the log to ensure it was part of the report.

 

@ryanc-unity yes, I got the number on the bug report. Its: 911591

It freezes when it starts up, but while Unity is running it periodically freezes as well. When playing the project it usually lags a bit, sometimes also when stopping it, but that might just be the game. But it might also log me out of the Unity services, and then when I sign in again, I get pretty much the same freeze as when I boot up Unity. Otherwise the freezes seem to mainly be less than a minute I think, but I have gotten pretty used to just go away from Unity when it freezes that I am not really sure anymore.

 

Strange... the log file is like 25mb, and it took several minutes to send the bug report. Maybe it was too big? I hope that is not it, since I am pretty sure its not an uncommon log size.

I tried timing this time, after flushing the DNS and such, how long it takes for Unity to open. I started opening it 12:52. 12:54 Unity was open, but frozen. Then I am guessing it is scanning the whole project and maybe comparing it to the Collab project or something? I notice my hard disk is working quite a bit while Unity is frozen like this. I notice its disk usage is 3-12mb/s. 13:01 it seemed to have finished loading. I must have clicked something, because now my Windows 10 is showing all apps on the bottom bar. Even processes and such that should not show up there, anything minimized to the tray as well. I guess I have to log off, and log back in and hope it helps.

I have included a zipped version of the editor log. That is the log you need, right? I guess there might be a separate log for Collab and other services. Its the log from yesterday though, I will make a zipped version of todays log as well.

 

Here is todays log. It did help to log off and log back on again. Not sure what just happened, my whole Windows got messed up, showing as if I had more than 50 apps open, but many of them were stuff you can usually only see in the task manager, and some of them might not even have shown up in the task manager either. I could not click on things in browsers and such, so the post above I could not post before having logged off, and back in again. Seemed to happen just as Unity had finished loading. Will try opening Unity again now.

 

Started Unity 13:12. 13:15 Unity opens, but is frozen. Disk is loading between 8 and 22mb/s it seems.

Pretty sure what just happened was that my Windows 10 had for some reason made all background processes into apps. About 110 background processes, so that gets pretty messy. I guess I clicked some hidden shortcut or something. Damn it. 13:21, it finished loading, the same thing happened. My Unity seems pretty broken right now, as it messes up my whole Windows when it finally stops being frozen. All my background processes became apps. Seems I can at least click stuff this time.

 

I took a screenshot. Guess I have to relog again. Any tips on how I might stop this from happening? I was hoping to get some work done today, and I cannot use Windows like this. I will try googling the problem.

I tried opening a different Unity project. It opens in less than a minute, but its also a very small project, but most importantly, it does not cause the error that I had the two last times. I cannot find much on Google about background processes becoming apps in Windows 10. I will try opening the project where I use Collab again, if it does the same I will try restarting the computer instead of just logging off and back on.

edit: It worked This time it did not cause this bug. I suspect it might be because I did not open the task manager. Strange bug. I hope the logs will help. I am using Unity 5.6.0 btw, I can see there is a 5.6.1 now.

 

Well, twice it happened at the exact time Unity had finished loading. I actually thought the problem had gone away, but just now it happened again while I was just using Unity and it was this time again just finished being frozen.

I do agree that it makes no sense that Unity should affect my Windows this way, but it has now happened 3 times, every time Unity was open, every time Unity had just been frozen for a few minutes and every time it happened the exact moment Unity stopped being frozen. The logs were mostly to help with why Unity even freezes in the first place. I have just begun using UMA, a character plugin, so I figured the freeze this time was related to UMA, but it could be that it was logging back into Collab. That it happened again also shows that it is not because of having the task manager open, since this third time it happened, I did not have the task manager open. I do have a bunch of background apps, stuff that changes my desktop (Stardock), Razer apps for my keyboard and mouse, and other things. Not sure if its one of these things that might conflict with Unity. Maybe they use the same port for a server or something... because again, I do agree Unity should not be causing this to happen, at least not on its own.

Oh, and yes, this was after having restarted my computer at least twice.

 

Collab made my Editor hang a few seconds whatever I clicked. It was a nightmare until I deleted it from projectSettings.asset.

 

Sorry, I was busy working on my project, I have been very busy working on getting some last thing to work, and now I am writing my report which is to be turned in next Wednesday.

Interesting that others have had this same problem. I was hoping a bit that this was something only I had experienced. It seems to be random. I had to eventually work on a system I was developing for the project in a different project, since Unity is so much faster and opens so much faster as well, without Collab, and last time this error happened I ran out of patience for it.

But I finished that part of the project, and have been using the Collab project again for a few days, without having that error yet... but I still have the major amounts of lags and freezes. I think I already mentioned it, but writing to the disk I have Unity and the project on also spikes every time this happens. I just tried again clicking on Unity and the disk activity on that drive just jumps to 100% for a while, I suspect its because Collab might be checking for changes, and Unity is probably also scanning the assets to see if something has been added. It dies down again pretty fast, unless Collab has lost its connection, then its the 10 minute+ freeze while it logs on to the Unity services again, the disk activity constantly being high.

My background apps are: Opera, Steam, uTorrent, Discord, GoG, Steam, Nvidia GeForce Experience, Logitech Gaming Software and this computer is using Windows Defender as its anti-virus. I can try experimenting with stopping these and see if there are any changes. I am hoping that error wont happen again, it seems if it happens, it happens when logging on to the Unity services. I will share my experiences in that other thread. Thanks for finding it.

 

Thanks. If firewall is the problem, it could be caused the famous GFW. So I guess there's nothing we can do before Unity setup CDN in China.

 

Avg bandwidth is about 10Mbs in my office, but the connection to Asset Store w/o VPN is horrible. I guess its bandwidth has only 1Mbs and unstable in general.
I tried Collab before but it didn't make the first commit, it took a few hours before I canceled it.
After that, I suffered from the Editor lag for a half year until I removed those lines from the settings file.
BTW, I suggest Collab print summary or something like that to EditorLog, it helps.

 

I have been pretty busy lately, but now I have installed Unity 2017.1. The startup time is still about 10 minutes, but now Unity seems to be much better at not losing the connection to Collab or Unity services overall... although it could also just be that I had my Internet connection fixed recently, so I might have been losing my connection to the Internet overall.

But the size of my scenes? Well, in this project my scenes are generally small, because I use "load scene additively" quite a bit as an attempt to save ressources. So my scenes usually consist of a bunch of smaller scenes. No matter which scene the project starts up in though, it takes the same time to load and once loaded its not a big problem opening new scenes. My full project is now about 1.5gb big.

The biggest scene in my project is almost 14 megabyte. The rest are below 4 megabyte in size. The big scene is most likely that big because it has a terrain.

 

Well, now, even though Unity is frozen, it does show the collab icon rotation I think. The rest of Windows still works, so I usually just do something else while it loads. It opens the project the same time it usually would, but once its loaded, the menu and the windows and all the Unity stuff, Collab starts loading. Opening the project and Unity itself takes about 2-3 minutes. Then it is about 10 minutes of collab loading after that. I suspect it is comparing the local files to the latest collab version.