SolidWorks Excessive memory usage.
SolidWorks Excessive memory usage.
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Hello all,
I am observing as one of my engineers is opening and closing assemblies and parts in solidworks. While we are going through this process I am noticing that in task manager the memory for the active Solidworks process continues to steadily climb. I have also noticed that when users open SolidWorks then open an assembly the memory allocation for the Solidworks process does not decline. At this point I am scratching my head as frustrated users are experiencing system crashes.
Our systems are Dell precision T5400's running Windows Vista x64 and solidworks 2008. the systems currently house 4gb of ram. Any help or suggestions will be greatly appreciated.
I am observing as one of my engineers is opening and closing assemblies and parts in solidworks. While we are going through this process I am noticing that in task manager the memory for the active Solidworks process continues to steadily climb. I have also noticed that when users open SolidWorks then open an assembly the memory allocation for the Solidworks process does not decline. At this point I am scratching my head as frustrated users are experiencing system crashes.
Our systems are Dell precision T5400's running Windows Vista x64 and solidworks 2008. the systems currently house 4gb of ram. Any help or suggestions will be greatly appreciated.






RE: SolidWorks Excessive memory usage.
That situation, however unacceptable it may be, is completely 'normal'.
Max out the RAM and increase your VM to suit.
RE: SolidWorks Excessive memory usage.
Can you narrow this performance hit down to a single part file?
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Jeff Mowry
www.industrialdesignhaus.com
A people who value security over freedom will soon find they have neither.
RE: SolidWorks Excessive memory usage.
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RE: SolidWorks Excessive memory usage.
Jeff Mowry
www.industrialdesignhaus.com
A people who value security over freedom will soon find they have neither.
RE: SolidWorks Excessive memory usage.
Along with that the task manager is not a reliable source to track memory useage. I have seen it off by up to 500mg. If you go to Control Panel>Administrative Tools>Performance right click in the graph and select "Add counter" select process from the first drop down, virtual bytes from the drop down below that and SLDWORKS from the drop down to the right. It says "virtual bytes" DO NOT mistake this for virtual memory. It is tracking all bytes that SolidWorks is using. You may also need to right click in the graph and adjust the min and max numbers to get a good read.
Cole M
CSWP, CSWST, CSWI, CPDM
HP XW4300, 3.4g proc, 2.5g RAM, ATI Fire GL 3100
Dell M90, Core 2 Duo, 4g RAM, Nvidia Quadra FX2500M
Equus (custom), P4, 3.4g proc, 3g RAM, Nvidia Quadro FX3400
RE: SolidWorks Excessive memory usage.
Jeff Mowry
www.industrialdesignhaus.com
A people who value security over freedom will soon find they have neither.
RE: SolidWorks Excessive memory usage.
All those items can be tracked through the tool I mentioned. Having run several of these tests on many systems I've found that portion of Task Manager to be very inaccurate and for all practical purposes worthless. For whatever reason its memory tracking is horrible.
Cole M
CSWP, CSWST, CSWI, CPDM
HP XW4300, 3.4g proc, 2.5g RAM, ATI Fire GL 3100
Dell M90, Core 2 Duo, 4g RAM, Nvidia Quadra FX2500M
Equus (custom), P4, 3.4g proc, 3g RAM, Nvidia Quadro FX3400