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PFI Nodes very slow to refresh

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JudeBac

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1/19/2011 3:07 PM

I am using PFI 9. My monitor is 22 inches. However, with so much object in the screen, clicking a node or connection, the designer goes and refresh all the nodes and it takes time to finish. Do you experience this? Such a pain to watch one node refresh one at a time. My computer is powerfull enough (3ghz Interl Duo CPU with 3 gb ram).

When I check the CPU usage in Task Manager, it only takes up to 50%. Memory usage is small. Setting the priority to High does not help (in bat file: start /High Designer.exe). Is there a switch or settings to add in designer.bat so that maybe refresh will use more than 50% CPU process? I am hoping that using more than 50% cpu will also increase the refresh speed.

Thanks for the input.

Jude
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Jason Beard

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1/19/2011 3:33 PM

Jude -
I've experienced the same thing. It is painful. Depending on what I'm doing I've actually either edited the xml file directly and made the change to the node or created the node on it's own in a new file and then cut/paste between the 2 xml files.
Goes without saying to be VERY careful if you go this route but at least you don't have to watch the flicker every time you do something. My personal favorite "feature" is when nodes disappear and you have to click up/down on the scroll bars to get them back.
You can also chunk up your process into multiple flows and simply call the next step in the chain...

good luck,
Jason

David Williams

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1/19/2011 3:33 PM

You could try turning Debug off within the PF Designer - but if you're actually debugging your flow then you will need this on.

JudeBac

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1/19/2011 4:45 PM

Thanks Jason and David for the input. One thing I am considerig is testing the designer in Win 7. What do you think?

Regards,
Jude

Jason Beard

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1/21/2011 3:00 AM

I've not tried it but anything is worth a try... I actually run XP within vmware on my mac... I could probably scrounge up a windows 7 license and try it out.