We are running project 2007 with project server 2007 & EPM. Recently we
got a
  project which had not been created with our standard global template.
the
  project has about 8000 tasks and about 5 indent levels.
  Now if you open the project up locally (whilst not coneccted to the EPM 
)it works
fine  opens quickly updates of progress etc are almost instantaneous.   If you
are connected to EPM opening the same project locally then takes about 5 
minutes to open  and any update you do takes about the same time for each 
update.
  All other projects are working just fine with 5000 + tasks, its just
this one.
  Has anybody got any ideas or experienced similar issues.
  Thanks in advance.

Hi Kym,

We had similar (about 2 minutes) experience with a project that had number 
of 'local resources' in the resource sheet. what we did is created the 
resources as enterprise resources then replaced these with the same ent. 
resources. (match/import from enterprise pool then match). 

I noticed in ULS logs thatthere was a number (dozens and dozens) of PSI 
calls to 'find' the local resource and then that call was taking time either 
to come back with 'not found' or something like that.. I can't remember.. but 
once these resources were converted to enterprise ones, that was all gone 
from logs and the same project published in about 10 seconds..

We're on PS2007 with SP1 + Dec CU.. 

I don't know the technical reasons behind this but this is how it worked in 
our scenario\environment. We've since pretty much abolished use of local 
resources on project plans and have things running smoothly and the number of 
'pending check-ins' has decreased as well from couple a week to one or two a 
month, if that..


"kym" wrote:

> We are running project 2007 with project server 2007 & EPM. Recently we
> got a
>   project which had not been created with our standard global template.
> the
>   project has about 8000 tasks and about 5 indent levels.
>   Now if you open the project up locally (whilst not coneccted to the EPM 
> )it works
> fine  opens quickly updates of progress etc are almost instantaneous.   If you
> are connected to EPM opening the same project locally then takes about 5 
> minutes to open  and any update you do takes about the same time for each 
> update.
>   All other projects are working just fine with 5000 + tasks, its just
> this one.
>   Has anybody got any ideas or experienced similar issues.
>   Thanks in advance.
>