I am not very much of a hardware techie as far as computers
go. I have been using solidworks consistently since 2004,. I am now
running 2007 SP 1.1.
My assemblies are usually in the 15 -30 MB size with the supporting files adding up to a few GB. Some parts are pretty complex, with multiple helical features, and sometimes some organic shapes as well.
I sometimes see assemblies that take upward of 30 minutes to load. When I view the task manager- performance window. It shows that I have 8 GB RAM with close to 7 GB available. The window shows 8 CPU's, rarely with much over 15-20% usage, one cpu may be hovering at or around 85-90% for a while then that usage will switch to a different CPU. Rarely is more than 2 of the CPU's showing more than 50% usage at one time. Is this normal?
Any help would be greatly appreciated. I am trying to get the management here interested in more seats of SW, but that is difficult when I am having so much trouble with what I would consider a pretty robust system.
My assemblies are usually in the 15 -30 MB size with the supporting files adding up to a few GB. Some parts are pretty complex, with multiple helical features, and sometimes some organic shapes as well.
I sometimes see assemblies that take upward of 30 minutes to load. When I view the task manager- performance window. It shows that I have 8 GB RAM with close to 7 GB available. The window shows 8 CPU's, rarely with much over 15-20% usage, one cpu may be hovering at or around 85-90% for a while then that usage will switch to a different CPU. Rarely is more than 2 of the CPU's showing more than 50% usage at one time. Is this normal?
Any help would be greatly appreciated. I am trying to get the management here interested in more seats of SW, but that is difficult when I am having so much trouble with what I would consider a pretty robust system.
Is it normal for the ram available RAM to be in the 7 GB (8GB total) when it is taking so long to load the file? Shouldn't it and the CPU usage be pretty much pegged out until the file is completely loaded?
I failed to mention that this particular file is being pulled across the network, but the network usage is nil when I look at the task manager. My next large project will be totally local. I've tried that in the past when I was running a 32 bit system and didn't notice a lot of difference.
Again, thanks for the responses so far. If anyone else has any advice, I'm all ears.
Thanks,
Bob
A properly configured network shouldn't be that much slower than reading from your hardrive. Also, depends on how many hops there are between your computer and the file server.
Speed from network at 100mb connection took 3min.
Speed from network at 1gb connection took 1min 10s
Speed from local hard drive took 30s
Will our network be as fast as our local hard drive.
Also our files on the network are in multiple separate files by part number 64000's one folder where 65000's in another folder
On our hard drive test all part numbers were in the same folder.
What speed are others getting network vs. hard drive