Very slow performance in TD

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Chris M.

All of the sudden Target Designer is running really slow
when doing a dependency check or building an image. This
happened before so I moved the XPE tools to a different
machine but still connected to the slow one for the
database. This worked fine for a while but now TD is
running really slow and using 99% of the CPU. It takes
hours to build an image now when it used to take minutes.
Please help!

Thanks in advance,
Chris
 
Hi Victor,

You are right about requirements, but more of 512 MB is required for
comfortable work.

I have been using 1024 MB of RAM and it worked nice :), currently I have
only 512 MB :(. It is enough for minlogon build files to be cached, but
filter search and some other advanced options, are using much more memory.

And when windows start swapping to virtual memory, you lose most your time
on this.


Regards,
Slobodan
 
Hi Chris,

I also experienced this. But I think my problem is that my machine just
falls in the
"minimum system requirement" cattegory. If you're running only on 128MB RAM,
expect that TD will crawl like a snail. Even for a 750Mhz w/ 256Mb RAM, I
still see the "Your computer is running on low virtual memory" message from
time
to time during TD's execution. But try running on a P4, 512Mb environment,
heheh.
Defnitely your "sluggish" woes will go away. So I deduce that the minimum
system
requirement stated here:
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/embedded/xp/evaluation/sysreqs/
is very unrealistic.

Regards, Vic
 
Chris M. said:
I have always run the TD on a 2GHz machine w/ 512MB RAM.
The thing is that it always ran really well until all of
the sudden it got really slow. It's like a setting got
changed somewhere or something. I think if I reinstalled
Windows on the machine that it would work fine again but I
would rather avoid doing this. I tried reinstalling the
XPE tools but with no success.
Click to expand...

wow! now that's a puzzler. say, with all those virus proliferations... maybe
you'll
be better off if you install the whole thing. and don't run without a
reliable anti-virus
kit. if you're not installing/doing anytihing out of the ordinary with your
actual build
machine's settings/registry/etc, and all of a sudden this happens, almost
always,
virus is the culprit.

HTH - Vic
 
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