I have always heard as a rule of thumb when working withPDMWorks
Workgroup - for performance reasons try to keep the numberof files
in a directory to less than 1000. Figured that sincePDMWorks
Enterprise uses SQL there would be no limit to the numberof files I
put into a directory. So for fun I took 44,500 files andcopied them
into one directory in the vault. As expected, PDMWorksEnterprise
can handle that many files and searching on them isstill crazy fast
(still less than a second for a typical search.)The downside is
browsing into the directory with Explorer.
3 minutes 42 seconds to open the directory when the files
were inthe cache, 2 minutes 15 seconds when the cache was empty.
Comparethis to 8 seconds to open a copy of the directory that was
outsidethe vault.
It took about 90 seconds when browsing through the directory
withthe "Open" dialog box in SolidWorks -even with the
"SolidWorksFiles" type filter turned on.
Drat. Looks like Enterprise cannot take the place of common
sense.Smaller directories are better.
PDMWorks Enterprise 2008, Windows XP