One of our users has found that renaming a layer in an open MXD takes 1-3 minutes. He feels that the process should be instantaneous. ArcGIS was originally running in a 32-bit (Windows XP) virtual machine (VMWare) running on top of a Linux workstation (RHEL 4.8, 64-bit). The user was given a physical PC (Windows XP, 32 bit) to use and found that renaming the layer was faster (~30 seconds), but not up to expectations. The MXD file is ~1.3MB in size and resides on a shared network drive (the performance of the file server is not an issue). How long should renaming a layer take? Are there any known bottlenecks for this process?
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