Help troubleshooting Large Assy Perf - R10SP2

[WalkerRA]

I'm trying to gain some insight into bottlenecks encountered while loading large assemblies (iam's).

After setting up some performance counters to monitor disk, network, memory and processor - I cannot tell where the problem lies.

I would love to hear from Adesk regarding, "what's going on when it looks like there is nothing going on?".

Any ideas appreciated.

-Russ

[Anonymous]

Russ,

How many components do you have in the assembly? What is the total size of
the dataset? Do you have 3GB switch on?

Johnson Shiue
Test Engineer
Autodesk
(email: johnsonDOTshiueATautodeskDOTcom)
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I'm trying to gain some insight into bottlenecks encountered while loading
large assemblies (iam's).

After setting up some performance counters to monitor disk, network, memory
and processor - I cannot tell where the problem lies.

I would love to hear from Adesk regarding, "what's going on when it looks
like there is nothing going on?".

Any ideas appreciated.

-Russ

[WalkerRA]

How many components do you have in the assembly?

>> At this point I'm not sure, the file will no longer open. 8-( However, there are approx. 725 unique part files and a lot of fasteners.

What is the total size of the dataset?

>>131 Mb w/o fasteners

Do you have 3GB switch on?

>>No. The workstation is a Dell Precision 380 w/ 4Mb, 3.0Ghz CPU, Quadro 3500. IT says the /3Gb switch is unsupported by Dell. I believe they may have tried it without success. I know the /USERVA switch has not been used.

The machine "stalls" at about 800Mb total Ram usage. Last time I tried, the machine ran for ~45mins.

-Russ

[WalkerRA]

Well it looks like the problem is isolated to our PDM system. If the files are cached locally the assy opens in 3 mins or so.

Thanks for looking,

-Russ