I have both an XP box and a windows 7 Box attached to our corporate network. Both have the same releases of the Cadence tools and same Cadence service pack/Hot fix releases (up to date as of 7/29/2013)
Issue:
Windows 7 box - exporting libraries to the network server takes over 15minutes (hard disk about 10 seconds)
Windows XP box - exporting libraries to the network server takes under 1 minute (hard disk about 10 seconds)
Things we have tried:
The PC boxes next to each other, same version of the tools (tried 16.3, 16.5 , 16.6 all releases behave the same).
Swapped Nic cards, no difference
Swapped Ethernet ports, no difference
Changed many of the settings in the windows environment, i.e. Auto detect speed changed to 1G, 100M, 10 M, Full / half duplex,etc...
My IT team is very puzzled and has run out of ideas.
Other symptoms: Win 7 Box - generating artwork first time is fast, but if there are existing files, very slow upwards of 5 minutes. Saving a file to a new file name - fast (realm of seconds), re-saving to current file name slow (realm of minutes).
Suggestions encouraged and welcomed. Thanks!
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Box details:
Box1 Intel Xeon CPU E3-1225 @ 3.2 GHz with 16 GB RAM, Service Pack 1 (Win 7)
Box2 Windows XP box is a DEL 780, Intel® Core™2 Quad, 4GB Service Pack 3 (Win XP)