solid works 2007 memory/system problem 1

[billywhiz]

I am running s/w 2007 on XP and when I bought faster machine about a year ago my 90meg drawings loaded faster. however something has drastically changed and I keep running out of memory and loosing all my changes.If I open the task manager and then go into a drawing to modify it I notice the memory climbing from say 250 meg to 1.68 gig and then it crashes, and when I look in the applications folder I see 2 s/w applications have opened and both say not responding. Yet on my old slower machine doing the same task the memory never gets above 50% of the start memory. Any Ideas as to what's going on??

 

[Updraft]

billywhiz,

Make sure you open one session of SWX and then open your files from within SWX, not by double-clicking on the filename in Windows Explorer. This might be why there are multiple sessions of SWX running, both consuming resources.

You should also investigate using the /3GB switch. There are arguements for and against using this. When I finally got it set up properly I did not have any problems, but I've had a 64-bit machine for awhile now and don't have to worry about that switch.

- - -Updraft

 

[billywhiz]

I always open my files in s/w and there only seems to be 2 applications running while it's saving or rolling back, once is has saved it it appears as only 1 again although the file seems to have doubled in size, very strange, where will I find the 3GB switch? I know this new machine will not use more that 50% of the CPU while the old one seems to be able to go up to 70% and that was also dual core.

 

[Updraft]

I did some digging and found the attached. I made a copy of the Boot.ini file (called it Boot-original.ini) as a backup in case there were problems (there weren't). We had 4GB of RAM on the machine with XP 32-bit and we had no problems with this change. I cannot quantify the results of the change as to speed changes, just that we rarely had a crash and when we did we were able to attribute it to trying to do too many weird things at once in SWX.

- - -Upraft