Inventor does not use ssd but ethernet instead

[w.deboom]

Dear People,

I have got the following problem. We recently installed vault proffesional and are using it with 2 users. I have got a problem wright now. When i open an assembly that contains of 647 parts inventor will first get the parts from the vault. After that when I start working inventor becomes very slow. This happens when I place a part from the content center or from an other location, when i use tube & pipe generator, and even sometimes when i apply constraints. I did take a look at my task managment and it shows that the SSD is used just a little bit. Instead inventor uses a lot of ethernet. 

Does anyone have a clue about this problem and maby know a solution? Thanks in advance. 

Willem

My PC specs are:

Lenovo 30b9

Intel(R) Xeon (R) CPU E5-2640 v4 @ 2.4GHz, 2401 Mhz, 10 core, 20 logical core

Usable memory: 61,9 GB

Nivada GeForce GTX 1070 Ti

SSD: WDC WDS1000T2GOA-00JH30, 932 GB

[leowarren34]

Hi @w.deboom,

Are you accessing your content centre from your vault? As that would network-based rather than local-based so you would be using ethernet rather than your SSD.

The CPU is on the slower side - Inventor is single-threaded for most operations so clock speed is key here. If your CPU is only hitting 3Ghz it's not going to help.

[imajar]

A couple of thoughts:

I assume your local project folder is located on your SSD and not on your network?  (check the workspace folder in your vault project file to confirm).  But your thinking is right, once the files are checked out, then assuming your working folder is on your SSD, file access should be quick.  Open the "Resource Monitor" in windows and watch the network tab to confirm if the network activity is related to Inventor, or something else.

I use vault, but keep my content center on my computer and it runs fast - is your content center on the vault or local?  Naturally, anything that is in the vault becomes subject to the speed of the network and the server itself.  If your network/server is slow and/or has bad latency, that could lead to waiting while Inventor communicates with the vault. 

I also have an SSD, because it is so fast I have found that most operations are bottle necked by my processor (by alot), so the SSD barely registers on the graph (with read speeds between 2-10 MB/s while opening).

@leowarren34'/s comment about your processor is spot on.  It's single threaded processing score on cpubenchmark.net is pretty bad (score there is "1636", compared to the current king -the i7 11900k- at "3700").  That's a great processor for servers, rendering, and FEA, but it is a terrible processor for Inventor because Inventor is mostly single threaded (or at least it is by a percentage of time I spend waiting for the kind of work I do).

[johan.degreef]

What if you disabled wifi and pulled out the wired internet connection after all is loaded from the Vault? Does it speed up?

[Anonymous]

I have a similar processor in my machine, it's really too slow not to handle large Inventor assemblies.

[w.deboom]

@leowarren34 @johan.degreef @imajar 

Thanks for your help. I will try to set the content center acces option to desktop content to see of this makes any difference. Is this not going to give problems with the library configuration between me and my colleague PC?  And if i read your reactions right i need a proccessor with a high score single threaded. 

Thanks in advance. I will try these options and let you know when the PC works a lot better.