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ShandRonnie1-Visitor
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November 26, 2012
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HP Z600 Workstation slow performance

  • November 26, 2012
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I have a new Z600 workstaion with Windows 7-64that has a quad-core processor with 12 CPUs shown in the Performance windows of the task manager.


The problem is that only one of the 12 CPUs is used at a maximum of 8-10 percent.


I am working with WF5 and tested it while running a Windchill session and a standalone session and both show the slow performance.


There are no search paths, everything is local. While deleting components at a large assembly, the regen at 8-10% can take over 30 minutes.


Because Pro/E is compiled single threaded, it can only use one of the 12 CPUs (in this Z600), but it should use the single CPU at 100%.


What is causing Pro/E to utilize only a fraction of one CPU?


Thanks in advance,


Ronnie Shand


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ptc-11405601-Visitor
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November 27, 2012
Just a FYI...I opened two huge STEP files on two different sessions at the same time on a single machine.  The two processors each went to 25% CPU when viewed on the task manager.  Two different licenses were utilized.

Thanks for the input.

Keith

On Nov 27, 2012, at 11:39 AM, Doug Schaefer <> wrote:

> I was just going to post the same thing.  On the rare occasions that we run out of seats, it’s because someone accidentally (or not) fired up two sessions, grabbing two licenses.
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> I’d love to have one license per workstation.
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davehaigh13-Aquamarine
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November 27, 2012
There are two ways to license the software to a single workstation. You can use flexlm, or a dedicated license. Flexlm will not let you run more than the number of copies that are in the license file. The dedicated license will. I haven’t used a dedicated license in 20 years so I don’t even know if they still offer it.

What you are seeing with the borrowed license is the behavior of the dedicated license. (ptc may call that something else.)

David Haigh
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ShandRonnie1-VisitorAuthor
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November 27, 2012
If you have a fixed, stand-alone license then you can open all the sessions of Pro/E that your PC can handle.
Why wouldn’t that apply for network licenses?

Ronnie
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kimndave91-Visitor
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November 27, 2012
It seems like it's been a long time since I first saw the Cheetah Solver
that is to be the heart of the Cloud Invent kernel. Based on this
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