8.0 Performance: element properties appear slowly

[Rene T.]

Dear all,

I'm using EA 8.0 (Corporate) for a few days now, working on my activity diagrams. I noticed that it became terribly slow. On my Intel Core2Quad (@2.67GHz, 3GB RAM) PC using WindowsXP, all the property dialogues need about 2 seconds to appear (with no noteworthy load on the system). Did I miss to deactivate any "lag out of hell" option?


TinkyWinky

[Geert Bellekens]

Are you working on a remote database, or on a local eap file?

Geert

[Rene T.]

We're working with an EAP file which is located on a server (mapped network drive). Speed was allright (not overwhelming) with the 7.5.
Verified the problem with the same EAP file, stored locally, but could not observe a significant difference.

[Geert Bellekens]

There are a few things to try:
- Create a new local eap file and see if this is slow as well. (so without a lot of data)
- Play with the "load on demand" option (tools/options)
- Try the same model with the new schema. There are quite some performance improvements in the schema in v8. The easiest to do is to create a new eap file from within EA v8, and then do a project transfer to this new eap file.
- Play with the JET option.

Geert

[Rene T.]

- Create a new local eap file and see if this is slow as well. (so without a lot of data)

Verified. Created a new model (Domain Model), a single Activity Diagram, a sincle action. The "Action1" box is drawn immediately, the properties dialogue is delayed (still 2 secs).

- Play with the "load on demand" option (tools/options)

Verified. Even with "Pre-load Entire Model" activated (and file reloaded), the delay is still the same.

- Try the same model with the new schema.

Well, if a new file shows the same delays, it's not the schema, right?

- Play with the JET option.

I already use JET 4.0. Where are the juicy options? Couldn't find anything in the help file.

[Geert Bellekens]

Have you turned off the JET 4.0?

Did you try on another pc?

Geert

[Rene T.]

Hrm. Checked with a similar PC. Feels better. Seems as if it's time to 'format c:'.  

[mrf]

I had a similar thing with Vista a few months ago. I think a service pack came through one night and then after that there was a significant delay between clicking on the "Connect to Server" button, and the ODBC database window showing up

Everyone else in the office was unaffected, and as soon as I moved to Windows 7 the problem went away