Conda. How can it be so slow?

RobertStevens

I have been trying to familiarise myself with the Conda environment mechanism in ArcGIS Pro (I am running Pro 3.1). Witness my earlier post about durability of environments.

I created a new Conda environment, then used the Python Command Prompt from the Start Menu.
Every invocation of Conda takes an eternity to complete. It takes tens of seconds to return even when the command line is incorrect. Eg I tried Conda list --envs. It took 35seconds! to inform me that --envs was an unrecognized argument.

How can this be that slow?? How is it possible to use such an environment with performance like that??

Brian_Wilson

My guess is there some slow network thing going on, a server or something it's searching. Perhaps something has become unreachable that's in there like a file server and it has to time out before it can complete.

Check what "conda info" says

probably the envs directory locations would be critical, it won't be reading cache locations unless you are doing an install