Sarah,
we have a very similar setup to yours, except that our user
filestore (Network Appliances) does accept native Windows connections,
despite being essentially Unix oriented.
With Windows 7, we create a Users\user folder on C: and point
ArcGIS there for its temporary workspace - on XP we used to have a
common C:\temp folder. The ArcGIS model does not update datasets in
situ, but creates lots of temporary files, renaming or copying for the
final results as appropriate - this means that ArcGIS operates on
copies of the original data which seems faster when on a local drive.
How much memory do your PCs have? Have you monitored any in
'typical use' to see where the bottlenecks are? It may be that your
PCs are paging a lot when running ArcGIS.
How are your users storing their data - as shapefiles or
geodatabases? I think this too can have an impact, depending upon
what ArcGIS facilities are being used. The geodatabase is the more
flexibile (and modern) structure.
Best wishes,
Peter
On 22 October 2012 16:54, Sarah Rigg <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Hi
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> We are having problems with performance with ArcGis v10 patched up to the
> most recent release.
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> The infrastrucutre at Sussex is:
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> AD
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> Windows 7 x64bit
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> Re-direction and roaming profiles
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> Unified filestore across all OS
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> The file storage does not support native Windows connections so we are
> having to connect via an intermediary Linux Samba mount.
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> I am interested in any advice on offer to improve performance of ArcGis and
> also in products used across the community to offer file storage to users.
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> Thanks in advance
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> Sarah Rigg
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> Head, Desktop Environments
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> IT Services
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> Sussex University
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> Tel: 01273 672970
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