Very slow TestStand

[skoni]

My TestStand was working fine for some time but lately it is very, very slow. Even if I create a brand new, empty sequence and start going to StationGlobals, then back to sequence, to types, even using menu items - all is very slow - I keep seeing the hour glass for between 5 to 15 seconds before actual action is performed by TestStand.

And I tried the above with ONLY TesStand running - no other apps - same behavior. I have 256 MB RAM and Pentium 3, WINDOWS 2000 PRO.

Other people in our company use the same WIN 2000 and very similar hardware and have normal performance.

Any hints will be appreciated.

[James_Grey]

First, use task manager to double check that some other process isn't hogging the CPU. If that is not the case another thing to check is your search directories. Go to Configure>>Search Directories in the sequence editor. Remove any directories you have added, especially to network drives or other potentially slow volumes, or to large directories with the search subdirectories option enabled. If that fixes it, add your paths back at the end of the list and put the slowest volumes or the directories with the largest amount of subdirectories to search at the very end. Hope this helps.

[skoni]

Thanks, moving network search paths did the trick.
Yet I still do not understand why it affects DESIGN performance. I'd understand that it might affect some of the individual design actions - like going to edit the sequence etc but traversing through menu, getting to Station Globals etc - ? .
Anyway - it works now