increase RDM performance (RamDisk)
We are considering RamDisk software for our team to speed up our workstations. We already have SSD's but we still see quite a bit of delay when doing things inside RDM.
Are there any performance options we can do to speed up application responsiveness? Specifically things like menu loads, properties of entries, application startup, etc?
Any tricks to recommend? We've found that using the 'menu' theme rather than the 'ribbon' team has significantly sped up the responsiveness of the GUI, but we want to squeeze even more out of it.
Maybe something like moving the RDM temp/scratch directory to a ramdisk? Does RDM use a scratch space of any kind? C:\ProgramData perhaps?
What about the ability to increase the amount of data that is cached from the advanced data source (SQL Server) so modifying entries is quicker?
Would RDM benefit from being entirely installed on a non-volatile ramdisk? Or are there particular directories or folders that would benefit more from having 10x the IOPS of SSD's?
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How many sessions do you have? Have you tried to do the Pack Data Source and Also run the Index Maintenance in the Pack Data Source?
You can also run the the Diagnostic and check if you use large image or large descriptions. One last thing is to disable the setting Allow entry states in Data Source Settings.
Regards
David Hervieux
We will try those. Do you have links in the online help on how to perform those actions?
We have about 1,550 entries.
As a reference, I have an SSD and a Core i7 processor running Windows 10, and opening RDM for the first time in the morning takes on average 14 seconds. From clicking the icon to the application being ready for me to select an entry.
So I ran the pack data source and index maintenance. And it doesn't seem to have done anything. No entries were optimized, and no space was saved.
Hello,
Could you please go in Help - Diagnostic - Data Source and click on the Database Diagnostic button to see if you have red X in the Summary tab?
Best regards,
Érica Poirier