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dgschaefer21-Topaz II
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August 2, 2017
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Slow Performance with NAS

  • August 2, 2017
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Creo 2, M230

 

Anyone experience exremely slow performance with Creo & data stored on a NAS? Creo & Windows explorer lock up regularly for minutes at a time and saving large data sets takes a ridiculous amount of time.  It's likely not a Creo specific issue, but Creo seems to exasperate the problem.  Might be because of the size of the data vs. office applications, but I seem to get more issues with Creo running than without.

 

Any thoughts would be appreciated.

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BenLoosli23-Emerald III
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August 2, 2017

Antivirus software running on the volume where you are saving CAD data to?

NAS backup images/snapshots being taken on the volume as the data is being written?

 

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dgschaefer21-Topaz IIAuthor
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April 12, 2018

Finally got an answer to this.  No antivirus and backups happen overnight, I believe.

 

 

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BenLoosli23-Emerald III
23-Emerald III
April 12, 2018

When we ran NetApp NAS devices, the Waffle OS is always doing snapshot backups 24/7. While they should not be an impact, they could. I would check the frequency of the snapshots and what folders are being backed up by snapshot. I agree that the tape backups are done overnight, that is how we did it, too.

 

What is your network speed? Any latency issues?

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dgschaefer21-Topaz IIAuthor
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April 12, 2018

Still having issues with this.

 

Our outside IT consultant came in and tweaked some settings on my laptop (I'm not sure what) which seemed to help for a few days, but the issue remains.  I believe that he made tweaks on the NAS as well, but I'm not certain.

 

Creo will just stop responding for 2-3 minutes at a time.  It seems to correspond with having Excel or possibly Word open with Creo.  When Creo locks, Excel & Word will lock along with any Windows Explorer windows.  Outlook still works fine and I can browse the web fine.

 

I'm typically working in a folder with a lot of files (2,700 at this writing) and purging seems to help some, but not much.  I can't tell if it's a placebo effect or real.  It's maddening.

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