Help me IT peoples

[Yantelope]

Okay guys, my work pc is a dual Xeon E5620 quad core with 24GB of RAM and dual Quadro 4000s in SLI (I added the bridge because my IT dept. didn't bother to have it installed that way). When I run autocad publish commands they can take almost 15 minutes to run. During that time the task manager shows very little activity on my computer's cpus. I suspect there's a network bottleneck which is hindering the publish command but I'd like to gather evidence that this is the case.

 

The files we work off of are all stored on a network drive so when you're getting a file or saving a file it's all being pulled off the network.

 

I'm wondering if there's any way to log the network traffic from autocad and look for latency issues with the network drive or switch to have some sort of indication whether or not it's the network actually lagging my machine.

[Mal]

I'm not the best person to answer but I would suspect its the network too since for work, I sometimes work off a network/intranet-whatever too. Sure the work PCs are crap but sometimes, I know its the network and shit on the other end that are causing the slowdown. Hell, especially when I connect with my home PC.

[Battra92]

The two biggest bottlenecks are network and hard drive. I suspect one or the other. That and in my opinion AutoCAD isn't the swiftest program in the world either.

[deanb]

My Dads an autocad user but as far as I know he's on a standalone machine, and on top of that I doubt he'd have a clue what any of your post except "autocad" meant.

[Enervation]

There's a very high probability your company is limited the bandwidth within your network to prevent overusage and subsequent slowdown.

 

I should know, since this is exactly what my university lab DOESN'T do, and then everyone lags to hell and sits around for 30 minutes waiting for the servers to unfreeze.