Visio 2002 Performance Problems with UML Model

[Danny]

Hi

I'm experiencing quite severe problems with a Visio model
that I don't suspect is really that large. The file size
is approx 7Mb and there are around 200 pages within the
model.

When I try to add a new diagram to the model it takes
almost five minutes. I'm running off a hig spec machine
with XP and Task Manager suggests that the processor is
100% occupied throughout these 5 minutes.

Any suggestions?

Thanks in advance

Danny

 

[Randall Arnold]

Visio is a serious memory hog. I experienced the same issue you are and,
long story short, had to go up to 1 gig of ram to resolve it. Every time I
doubled my ram I saw a significant improvement, and at 1 gig the response
time was finally acceptable.

Nowadays one can never have too much ram.

Randall Arnold

 

[Guest]

Will get my support guys to try that out. Many thanks.

 

[Danny]

Will get my support guys to try that out. Many thanks.

 

[Randall Arnold]

Another thing that has helped me, and not just with Visio: a memory
management tool called RAM Idle. You can download the free LE version here:

http://www.tweaknow.com/download.html

It performs the memory cleanup that Windows XP fails to do.

Randall Arnold

 

[RA]

Another thing to try is to remove the printers or change the printer
drivers.
Visio reads in the printer drivers for the text engine when a document is
loaded.

 

[Mark Nelson [MS]]

Visio 2002 has a problem with a large number of pages in the document. This
particular bottleneck does not occur in Visio 2000 or Visio 2003. As
Randall mentions below, Visio still consumes quite a bit of memory.
Increasing RAM will improve performance across the board.