Visual Studio debugging painfully slow when loading symbols

Question

I have an issue which is practically similar to Visual Studio debugging/loading very slow but I haven\'t managed to find a solution to such a problem.

I have tried all w

Answer 1

As per the comment by rkawano - turning off the Fusion Log can sometimes fix this problem (it did for me). I had enabled the fusion log after reading the following article and then forgot about it. After some time I started experiencing a significant slowdown of visual studio 2013. The symptom is that VS 2013 becomes unresponsive, particularly when ending a debug session. It will also display symbol loading dialogs when loading a project or stopping the debugger (these are not typically shown).