AutoCAD 2011 & the use of memory (taskmanager)

[ReMark]

I don't think individual entities like fonts and hatches can be assessed how much memory they use. I think it is more just the overall size of the drawing file itself. Anyways, I thinks that drawing file size is the least of your problems.

[MarcoW]

Hi Mark,

 

I wonder if I explained my problem well enough..? Anyway...

 

At this moment I am running / working in a drawing that uses 725mB (taskmanager).

There is no problem whatsoever... The other drawing I mentioned, used the same amount of memory but acts 100 times slower.

 

So I believe you are right that it has nothing to do with the drawingsize.

 

Maybe the dwg is "corrupt"?

[ReMark]

If you think you have a corrupt drawing then run an Audit on it.

 

Maybe your system speed problems have something to do with the motherboard you are running.

[MarcoW]

If you think you have a corrupt drawing then run an Audit on it.

 

Maybe your system speed problems have something to do with the motherboard you are running.

I audit almost every session just like purge... (Before saving)

 

I hope it has nothing to do with the motherbord for it's a new system and I am not that good in convincing our systemmanager (out company).

Maybe I will try to use the DWG on my old system, it's still here in the office.

That one alwas ran fine, so maybe I will find out that there is something wrong with my new PC.

pff.. Thansk for your replies Mark.

[irneb]

There are 3 scenarios where I've come across this:

 

1. Numerous anno scales from XRefs. In the order of 10's of thousands.
   
2. Hatching set to anno and having multiple scales attached. When your hatches are more than just a spit and a spot, they generate extremely slowly.
   
3. Due to one of my older anno cleanup routines, it deleted scales without checking if these were applied or not. This caused either crashes or extreme slowdowns.
   

The last 2 items only happened in PS though, MS seemed to work fine.

[bjenk8100]

i had some issues with my memory and i came here and someone recommended to change my virtual memory settings. If you ahve a lot of hard disc space you might want to bump your virtual memory up. I had our tech guy do it for me. Supposedly, there is a factor you multiply your hard disc space by and thats what your virtual memory should be at. Mine was well below when it came from the store. The effects have helped multiple processes of my pc. Google optimizing virtual memory.

[ReMark]

A minor correction to the above post re: virtual memory. The factor is 1.5 to 3 times the amount of installed RAM.

 

Tweaking Virtual Memory in Windows XP.doc

[Slaraffenmann]

Install the new acad 2011 update. Autocad runs much smoother at my computer now. Seems like the memory usage is decreased a lot.

[MarcoW]

Install the new acad 2011 update. Autocad runs much smoother at my computer now. Seems like the memory usage is decreased a lot.

 

You mean the 1.1 update that came out in march? I have it installed allready...

[Slaraffenmann]

No, the re-release of 1.1 that came out in the middle of september.

[MarcoW]

Oops... looks as if I have missed something...

This is where to look (shared for others).

 

How do I know if I have installed the update yes or no?

I mean, before just installing, I could check to see, right?

 

Else I'll install anyway. Thanks for the reply!

[Ryder76]

 

Closing the drawing and reopening it again is the solution I have so far.

 

 

With your task manager open to the Processes tab watch as you only minimize ACAD. The memory usage will drop like a rock. You don't have to close the drawing. I got that tip from "Lazy Drafter", but can't find it now. It had an explanation as to why this happens (mem hog and reduction), but I couldn't tell you for the life of me what that explanation was. I just know it works....like magic! A pain it is, but better than closing the drawing.

[MarcoW]

With your task manager open to the Processes tab watch as you only minimize ACAD. The memory usage will drop like a rock. You don't have to close the drawing. I got that tip from "Lazy Drafter", but can't find it now. It had an explanation as to why this happens (mem hog and reduction), but I couldn't tell you for the life of me what that explanation was. I just know it works....like magic! A pain it is, but better than closing the drawing.

Nothing seemed to help.

 

What I found / have done is this: first I selected all the textstyles made them standard wich is ISOCP as well as in the xref as in the actual DWG.

Next I xclipped away all I don't need within the xref.

 

It is not 100% okay but it defenitely is better!