Slow MC performance

[Bruce Caulley]

Ahoy!

 

I have noticed that X is getting awfully slow on some of the larger files even when doing simple processes. eg:

 

My pc - twin Zeon 3.2ghz with 4gig ram Win2000

 

When the operations manager starts getting over 100 ops in it everything slows down. I am not regenning these ops, they are just sitting there. File size is about 55 meg. I am up to 315 ops in 20 groups and have about 50% performance loss. I know this is a lot of ops, but what background resources could they possibly need if they aren't being re-processed??????

 

Another pc - single Zeon 3.2ghz with 4gig ram Win2000

 

30 meg file with a couple of very (physically)large solid models. No many toolpaths yet, but if you view the tool parameters page, changing tabs takes about 30 seconds. It also takes this long to exit out of the page.

 

 

What should we do?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?

 

Bruce

[Bruce Caulley]

BTW both video cards are nvidia quadro4 750XGL

[Greg Williams]

Bruce,

 

Not that I am much help here but my understanding is that Windoze 2000 can only utilize 2gig of ram.

 

I will do some testing and see what I come up with regarding file size

[Bruce Caulley]

Thanks Greg, but the peak memory usage in the processes tab is about 220meg.

[Greg Williams]

Bruce,

 

What is the number on the (Lack Of) Performance Tab?

[Teh Bear without Brains kinda idiot]

fIRST OF ALL MAKE YOUR VIRTUAL PAGE FILE 1.5 rAM SIZE STATIC

[Bruce Caulley]

Ok. The file with the biggest performance drain seems to be working better now that one of the large solid models in the file has been converted to surfaces and the solid deleted. Silly thing is that no toolpaths reference this solid $*@&%.

 

Anyway, thanks Greg and all for the help.

 

Bruce

[Johan van de Loenhorst]

I`ve the same problem, slow prosessing even on not to big files. My PC isn`t as fast as yours (1.7 mhz, 625mb ram) but I blame it on windows 2000.

 

at home i have xp pro with a little faster pc and it works like a charm

 

My next step will be: kick W2000 and get XP

( got to convince some people though)

[Lee.]

I find it's better to have multiple files with less ops due to the fact that MC will always want to restore the NCI file.

 

HTH