Hi Michael, Here is one possible explanation for the performance differences. FME does not currently take advantage of dual core CPUs (or multi-processor machines, for that matter); the FME process will only run on one of the cores. I.e. if you are only running fme.exe on the machine, you will have one core that is at 100% and on that is idle.
To work around this problem, I'd suggest you partition your translation (i.e. find portions that can be translated independently), and use FME in super batch mode (as Mark suggested), but use multiple FME processes at once. i.e. start two fme.exe processes at once, both running super batch mode. Regards, Tom Weir Safe Software Dev Team -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Michael Muilenburg Sent: March 27, 2006 10:44 AM To: '[email protected]' Subject: [fme] FME performance I'm running into very long conversion times, (up to 6 hours without transformers) and I wanted to see if this is typical. The longest conversion times typically occur when I'm working with CAD files. A test sample consisting of 102 files and 76.5MB in size with an average size of 500KB took 30 minutes to run giving a rate of about 2.5 MB/sec. I've tried the conversion on 3 different systems with similar results on each: Workstation with a 10,000 RPM SATA drive and a 2.8GHz Xeon CPU with 1 GB of Ram, 20kb of L1, 1024kb L2 cache, and a front side bus of 800Mhz. Workstation with a 10,000 RPM SATA array, dual core AMD 3600 with 2 GB of Ram, 128kb L1, 2000kb L2 cache, and a front side bus of 2000Mhz. Server with a 15,000 RPM SCCI array, 2 Xeon dual core 3.06 GHz CPUs, 4 GB of Ram, 2 x 28kb L1 and 2 x 2MB L2 cache, and a front side bus of 533MHz. Any incites as to this being typical performance would be greatly appreciated. Best regards, Michael Muilenburg Manager of GIS Consolidated Utility Services, Inc. dba Great Plains Locating Service dba ProMark Utility Locators [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1001 Office Park Rd. Suite 209 West Des Moines, IA 50265 (515) 225-2520 x2 Office (402) 216-0351 VoIP (402) 960-3646 Cell Get the maximum benefit from your FME, FME Objects, or SpatialDirect via our Professional Services team. Visit www.safe.com/services for details. Yahoo! Groups Links Get the maximum benefit from your FME, FME Objects, or SpatialDirect via our Professional Services team. Visit www.safe.com/services for details. Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/fme/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
