We deployed Wildfire 5 (CE Pro 5) over the weekend (upgrade from Wildfire 3).
Some of our users have reported that WF5 uses 50% more memory than WF3.
Example: One large assembly used to take 11GB, but now required 18GB.
This takes the PC beyond RAM, and now the virtual memory swapping greatly reduces performance.
Anyone else seen this?
Any advice?
Gerry
We crossed this bridge some time ago noticing the increase when we went to Wildfire from 2001. We decided to go with 64 bit workstations and now all of our servers,workstations and laptops are 64bit.
While attending a customer meeting at PTC this past spring the topic of theincreasing Wildfire footprint on the hard drive and the increased memory requirementsdid have some dialog. PTC shared that along with added functionality in the new releases that they continue to perform regression testing back to very early releases of Pro/ENGINEER to enable those files to be opened and edited with new releases.If we take increased functionality and regression testing into consideration it is understandable then why there's anincrease in footprint and RAM requirements.
For what it's worth, Jim