Large numbers of files on any OS can be disruptive, on windows it's plain
bloody weird. Errors become intermittent and unhelpful and odd things start
happening. I've had file opens come back with an error saying 'printer not
ready'.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM [mailto:owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM] On
> Behalf Of Chris Marshall
> Sent: 06 May 2008 16:38
> To: XSI(at)Softimage.COM
> Subject: Re: disk access from XSI gone crazily slow
>
> Joe,
> Thanks for that! Worked a treat on one of our machines, but not on mine
> unfortunately. What I've noticed is that the project I'm on does have a
> huge number of particle clouds, all cached. So I checked in the Sim
> folder and there were nearly 20 thousand files. Clearing these out had
> a
> huge speed impact. Why would XSI be checking in all the sub-folders of
> a
> project before I navigate there? Maybe I'll try putting the particle
> sims in sub folders of the Simulation folder, and see what happens.
>
> Luc-Eric, I set up a complete new user and access was much quicker,
> until I navigated to my current project and it was back to 'dead-slow'
> again. I'll see what happens with this particle cache situation.
>
> Cheers
>
> Chris
>
>
>
> Joe Laffey wrote:
> > On Fri, 2 May 2008, Luc-Eric Rousseau wrote:
> >
> >> Another thing I'd like to clarify, just to make sure:
> >>
> >> When we say checking for mapped drive, it means drivers in My
> Computer
> >> in Windows Explorer. They don't need to be used by the XSI project,
> >> it's not related to the project. It's scanning "My Computer" in
> order
> >> to build the file open dialog that gets stuck on network timeout.
> You
> >> need to unmapped these drive letters, if any.
> >>
> >
> > On this note you can reduce much of the absurd 2 minute timeouts for
> > network resources by disabling the "WebClient" service in the service
> > under Manage My Computer (right cilck My Computer). This worthless
> > service is for using front page to upload files to a web server. It
> > does not influence your computer as a "client" to the web.
> >
> > Disabling this can solve all kinds of crazy network hangups. I
> disable
> > it on every machine. With it enabled, windows tries to connect to a
> > non-existent, or firewalled web server on every computer it interacs
> > with. If this port is firewalled and simply drops packets it takes
> > quite some time for it to time out...
> >
> >
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