Laptop technical specification for P6

http://www.planningplanet.com/forums/primavera-version-pm5-pm6/499754/primavera-p6-release-8

Better get 1 Terabyte of RAM, this is memory hungry and getting hungrier. Soon 999 GB will not be enough.

Hi Rafael,

I am wondering why in Laptop a Large number of activites is getting slower to open compared to PC with the same Project to open.

Any Hints?

regards,

Raymund,

Try re-indexing your database. Look for the procedure that fits your database selection and let all know if it works, I am sure many will be grateful.

It seems to be a problem common of databases stored in a single huge file, but I am not an expert as I do not use software with such issues.

Best Regards,

Rafael

Rafael,

Thanks for the reply...

As I noted on the task Manager PM.exe *32 is running... while my laptop is Win7 64 bit.... meaning P6 32 bit is running on a 64 bit OS?

This could be a cause of it?

Regards,

I guess it might be a possible cause, operating system has to do with accessible/usable RAM it is not necessarily that your computer has it. Believe 32 bit is limited to access 4 MB RAM while 64 is substantially more.

If you open a single job you should not notice the difference, unless very big, in such case I believe other issue shall be the cause.

How big is your job that is so slow?

A fully resource and cost loaded 120,000 activities CPM  shall load in about 5 seconds and shall save in about the same amount of time.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Me31jP_n3dE

I have a 32bit OS with 3G RAM' perhaps average by today standards.

Hi Rafael,

I have 64bit win7 4G RAM. Only 10,000 activities with activity codes loaded. Resources are not yet loaded and it will takes 20-30 mins to open. While opening the same project in a desktop pc using a 32bit win7 2GB RAM, it wil take just seconds.

Hope to have my problem resolves soon.

Regards,

Raymund,

Perhaps because you are using, unnecesarily, a monstruous data base even opening a single job will take long if re-indexing is past due.

One approach can be to create several separate data bases and use a few jobs per database. Try with just a couple of jobs without deleting from original database.

I dont't believe the issue will solve by itself, no harm doing some trials until someone hits the answer.

Regards,

Rafael

Thanks alot for the advice Rafael.

Regards,

I’m going to ask, something with a minimum 2gb of memory, for the processor at lest 2mb cache.

Thanks all for the inputs.

Cheers,

Miguel