slow RTF generation

[SteveHarris]

How long should it take to generate RTF documentation?  I'm currently running at over 2 hours on my main project: it's making progress but slowly.  

I have upgraded to 788 recently.  It wasn't this slow with previous builds, but recently I have linked diagram references to use cases with a realise association: could this be responsible.

I'll post more when my PC becomes available - I have a deadline to meet and I don't want to loose my current investment in cpu cycles.

Steve

[jaimeglz]

Hi Steve,

I'm working on a medium-to-large project, with over 2300 elements. Generating an RTF of the whole project with an outdated machine (1 GHz, 256 MB of RAM) takes about 20 min, and generating the html takes about the same. So, my guess is that the 2 hours can be due to networking bottlenecks. If you are working on a centralized EA database (SQL Server, Oracle...), do try to copy your project to a local file (Tools -> Data Management -> Data Transfer), open your the local project you have just copied, and gen your RTF on your local disk.

Another solution would be to gen the RTF by package by package, and check what is causing the delay.

Cheers,

Jaime

[SteveHarris]

Thanks, Jamie

The project is local already.

I also have some more information:  the problem seems to be with the changes I have made to the diagram today: yesterday's checkin to subversion (on my thinkpad with less than half the RAM of my desktop) takes less than 3 minutes.  At <320 elements and <320 connections, it's not a particularly big project either.

As the changes made today could be excluded from the report I killed the RTF generation, rebooted my desktop machine and raced my thinkpad Z60m (1Gb, 1.99GHz) against my Dell Precision 380 (2.9Ghz, 2.5Gb) both on build 788.  The Dell has ground to a halt as I speak - both PCs are smack bang up-to-date on windows update so it doesn't look like a windows snafu.

I'm going to commit the diagram to subversion next and delete some things.

Steve

[SteveHarris]

Ok, It's nothing to do with My PC, I reverted to a previous version on my desktop and updated to the current version on my laptop: generation completed on the desktop and slowed to a near halt on my laptop.

Steve

[SteveHarris]

Ok, I left the report running overnight and I have a 3653 page report with repetitive garbage after page 277.

Tried repairing and compacting the file to no benefit.

If I have time today I'll start narrowing down the bit that causes problems

Steve

[thomaskilian]

Don't know whether it may help, but try Tools/Data Management/Integrity

[SteveHarris]

Thanks, Thomas

repairing = integrity

Sorry for using the wrong terminology: I used to do a lot of development against the Jet database engine

Didn't help anyway

Steve