Target Designer - Painfully slow???

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Bernie Fowler

Hi,

I have added one or two components to my build and oh! its painful
running dependancy check -

Pemtium 4 , 2 GHz,

Started dependancy check about 9:30, its now approaching midnight
and still checking dependancies - CPU showing 100 %!!!

Is there any way of speeding up this process???

Bernie
 
Hi Bernie,

1. 1GB or RAM is bare minimum for some level of not so comfortable work with TD. 2GB+ would be ideal.
2. Disable antivirus programs.

Regards,
Slobodan
 
Yes, that would help. But that is NOT the entire problem.

There is a bug somewhere in TD that is causing this. I currently run TD on
a laptop with 512megs and it runs pretty fast.
I use to run it on my desktop which is a much faster machine, but TD pegs
out the cpu and takes hours for a dependency check or to open a
configuration or close a configuration or save one.

Laptop is an Intel and Desktop is a AMD 2 ghz. Desktop has 80 gigs of free
drive space and 1 gig of ram. Laptop has 20 gigs of free space and 512 megs
of Ram.

Once TD starts doing this, I haven't found a way to make it stop without
deleting everything and starting all over!

Also, once this starts taking place. Close TD and see if the processor is
still at 100%.

Richard
 
Yes I quite agree - there is something definately not right.
At work I use a Pentium III system, with 512MB RAM and not much disk space
and that system runs just fine.

When you say you 'delete everything' do you mean your project files or do
you
un-install TD etc. or both?

I re-installed the Database because I was getting error reports of items not
being there. This removed this problem but didn't speed up the dependancy
checks.

Today, the dependancy check (excluding the build process) took just over 2
houra for
300 components. I think this is excessive and feel I need to rport this to
Microsoft!

I program embedded systems for guided missiles and we fight to pull back the
odd millisec. and can't quite comprehend software taking this long to
execute!

Regards,

Bernie
 
Bernie,

Just aside the fact that it may be MS bug in XPe Tools, I have seen some strange slow behavior of the tools on one of my pretty fast
dev machines. The only cure that time was to re-install the Mantis DB.
I don't have good repro steps here to reproduce the issue but, I guess, it is there.
 
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