ETO Server Resource limits?

[Anonymous]

Hi All,

Could anyone let me know if there are any limits on an ETO server, it seems like the server is only ever using a MAX of 30% of the resources available to it. If it could use more it could get things done quicker.

Thanks

John

[GeorgeWilliams · Accepted solution]

I don't know of any hard limits on resource usage, but I do know that a session in ETO Server is a single threaded.  As you likely know, that will peg out CPU resources for the machine to whatever percentage that core is of the total available CPU cores.

We have dealt with the scenario of "ETO Server too slow vs dev machines and its only using XX% of the resources" by either using more powerful cores or moving the ETO project to be hosted on C360 - effectively making all performance tuning up to Autodesk. 🙂

Good luck!  Debugging performance issues is almost always un-fun...

[Jon.Balgley]

Just confirming what George said:  ETO is single-threaded.  There are occasional bits and pieces of parallelism by particular Inventor operations, within the overall single-threadedness.

IMO, the first thing to check is that you are really CPU-limited.  If you are disk-limited, and you are using a rotating disk, consider upgrading to a solid-state drive.  This is likely to be the "best bang for the buck".  Also, of course -- be sure the files in question are on the local drive, not a network drive!  

After that, the performance analysis/improvement gets more difficult.

Oh, another thought:  even if you are using ETO Server, consider using C360 as a benchmark to compare.

[Anonymous]

Thanks Everyone for your input and suggestions. 

This is a great product, I just wish there was more information out there for it.

Again thank you for your help. I'll keep you updated on anything else that comes of this.