ACAD Electrical Slow... Long Pauses!!!!!

[Anonymous]

I just installed AutoCAD Electrical and Autodesk Inventor 10 on a new
computer. When I run Electrical, I find that the software freezes after most
commands for a few seconds. I can open the same file or files from ACAD 2006
and the problem is not there. Could this be from having both versions
installed? Should I try to re-install Electrical? I have not yet activated
either program....

Thanks for any help. This is keeping me from using the Electrical package
for anything useful.

Jim Colacino

[John]

This is a known problem with 2006. Change to SDI mode.
See Nate Holt's recent FAQ:-

....flip AcadE 2006 to SDI mode (close all but one drawing type SDI at command line, change value from 0 to 1, hit [Enter])

John

[testsubject]

I already do have SDI set to 1. I noticed that it hangs whenever opening a drawing. When I check task manager, it shows that "System" is using about 95%+ of the CPU. This can last from 30 sec to 1 minute. This is getting very frustrating.

Also, has anyone noticed that there is a program that keeps failing but I cannot find it with a search. The program is eoikuv.exe. I ttried googling it but came up empty. Has anyone else seen this? I am unsure if it is ACE related but I noticed it after installing 2006. I realize that it could be a coincidence...

Robert Hanrahan
ACE use since 1998

[Anonymous]

I have not seen this long of a pause when opening a drawing or running a
command. A few things you might check and report back are:

- System resources. How much RAM do you have and how much is being used by
the system after Acade is loaded
- How many open projects do you have in the Project Manager? You can only
have 1 active project, but you can have multiple Open projects and even
though the Open projects are not being worked on they are still being
monitored by the Acade 'Project Database Service'

I am not sure if either of these would cause the type of slowdown you are
seeing, but it is something to look at.

As for the program that you mentioned that is failing. I could not find
anything out about this either. Not internally here at Autodesk or on the
web.

Steve


wrote in message news:4879394@discussion.autodesk.com...
I already do have SDI set to 1. I noticed that it hangs whenever opening a
drawing. When I check task manager, it shows that "System" is using about
95%+ of the CPU. This can last from 30 sec to 1 minute. This is getting very
frustrating.

Also, has anyone noticed that there is a program that keeps failing but I
cannot find it with a search. The program is eoikuv.exe. I ttried googling
it but came up empty. Has anyone else seen this? I am unsure if it is ACE
related but I noticed it after installing 2006. I realize that it could be a
coincidence...

Robert Hanrahan
ACE use since 1998

[testsubject]

Steve,

Thanks for the response.

I have 1.25G of RAM.
1.79Ghz P4


It takes well over a minute for ACE to start up. (it used to be only 10-15 seconds) During that time, AcePMComServer is using 95%+ of the CPU.
Before starting Ace, 845M are available under "Physical Memory".

after starting, it drops to 717M.

I count 18 open projects. Is there a setting to allow us to turn that down?

I just went back to check and found that SDI had somehow been set back to 0 and all my file paths are now missing. Something is screwy going on here. I will continue to monitor it with the SDI now reset to 1. I am also going to reboot and see if that makes a difference.

Bob

[Anonymous]

Try installing the new AutoCAD Electrical 2006 SP1 (Service Pack 1). See
recent msg for link.
Nate.

wrote in message news:4879639@discussion.autodesk.com...
Steve,

Thanks for the response.

I have 1.25G of RAM.
1.79Ghz P4


It takes well over a minute for ACE to start up. (it used to be only 10-15
seconds) During that time, AcePMComServer is using 95%+ of the CPU.
Before starting Ace, 845M are available under "Physical Memory".

after starting, it drops to 717M.

I count 18 open projects. Is there a setting to allow us to turn that down?

I just went back to check and found that SDI had somehow been set back to 0
and all my file paths are now missing. Something is screwy going on here. I
will continue to monitor it with the SDI now reset to 1. I am also going to
reboot and see if that makes a difference.

Bob

[Anonymous]

Bob,

Well, you have plenty of RAM, so no issues there.

As for the number of open projects, there is no setting to lower the number
you have open. I think right now there is a max limit of 30. You can open
more then 30 during an Acade session, but once you exit and reload Acade,
only 30 projects will be reloaded.

You might consider closing some or most of these project and seeing if you
still have this delay. When Acade loaded, the Project Manager has to past
information about these open project to the Project Database Service and
this could cause a slight delay depending on project location, project size
and possible other factors.

Steve



wrote in message news:4879639@discussion.autodesk.com...
Steve,

Thanks for the response.

I have 1.25G of RAM.
1.79Ghz P4


It takes well over a minute for ACE to start up. (it used to be only 10-15
seconds) During that time, AcePMComServer is using 95%+ of the CPU.
Before starting Ace, 845M are available under "Physical Memory".

after starting, it drops to 717M.

I count 18 open projects. Is there a setting to allow us to turn that down?

I just went back to check and found that SDI had somehow been set back to 0
and all my file paths are now missing. Something is screwy going on here. I
will continue to monitor it with the SDI now reset to 1. I am also going to
reboot and see if that makes a difference.

Bob

[Anonymous]

Bob,

I agree with Steve's assessment. You should close a lot of the extra "open"
projects you have in your project manager window. Just keep the two or three
projects you're working on in an "open" mode. You can quickly restore any of
them by just selecting the "Recent Projects" menu item from the pop list in
the upper left-hand corner of the project manager.

My original idea of loading the new "service pack" update is not going to
help in this area.

Nate.

"Steve Kemp (Autodesk)" wrote in message
news:4879782@discussion.autodesk.com...
Bob,

Well, you have plenty of RAM, so no issues there.

As for the number of open projects, there is no setting to lower the number
you have open. I think right now there is a max limit of 30. You can open
more then 30 during an Acade session, but once you exit and reload Acade,
only 30 projects will be reloaded.

You might consider closing some or most of these project and seeing if you
still have this delay. When Acade loaded, the Project Manager has to past
information about these open project to the Project Database Service and
this could cause a slight delay depending on project location, project size
and possible other factors.

Steve



wrote in message news:4879639@discussion.autodesk.com...
Steve,

Thanks for the response.

I have 1.25G of RAM.
1.79Ghz P4


It takes well over a minute for ACE to start up. (it used to be only 10-15
seconds) During that time, AcePMComServer is using 95%+ of the CPU.
Before starting Ace, 845M are available under "Physical Memory".

after starting, it drops to 717M.

I count 18 open projects. Is there a setting to allow us to turn that down?

I just went back to check and found that SDI had somehow been set back to 0
and all my file paths are now missing. Something is screwy going on here. I
will continue to monitor it with the SDI now reset to 1. I am also going to
reboot and see if that makes a difference.

Bob

[testsubject]

Nate,

I already had installed the update but after reading the Readme i felt that it would not help. I am trying to use less open projects and will keep you posted as to the results.

Bob