topic Re: Indoors Processing Time Advice in ArcGIS Indoors Questions

Indoors Processing Time Advice

AronRoberts_APS — Mon, 27 Mar 2023 16:56:39 GMT

Hi there. We have 2 computer towers that are almost identical in terms of their specs, however they have vastly different processing times. When running the Indoors tool 'Import Floorplans to Indoors' one takes about 17 hours, whereas the other took about 3 hours. We can't seem to figure out what is going on with the slower computer, all we do know is that the internet speeds are different. On the faster one, download speed is 560 mbps, upload is 750 mbps, but the slower one the speeds are 47 mbps for download, and 288 mbps for upload. We have tried running from both the C: drive, and our network drive, and there is no significant time difference, which leads me to think the internet speed is not causing the difference. Does anybody know if the internet speeds could actually be the reason for this processing time difference? Perhaps even when on the C: drive, the Indoors processing does use a significant amount of internet bouncing off of servers, maybe? Or does anybody have any advice as to what might be causing it?

Thank you in advance!

Re: Indoors Processing Time Advice

MichaelJenkins — Mon, 27 Mar 2023 17:02:20 GMT

Do they have identical GPUs? I would think that GPUs would make the biggest difference in processing speed, rather than CPUs or RAM. I doubt internet speed has anything to do with it.

Re: Indoors Processing Time Advice

AronRoberts_APS — Mon, 27 Mar 2023 17:16:03 GMT

Hi Michael,

The GPUs and CPUs are both identical.

Re: Indoors Processing Time Advice

GauravJobanputra — Mon, 27 Mar 2023 17:42:47 GMT

@AronRoberts_APS you have mentioned C: drive but just you to clarify. Both input and output (target gdb) for the tool are pointing to a location on the local hard drive on both machines?

Re: Indoors Processing Time Advice

AronRoberts_APS — Mon, 27 Mar 2023 17:54:14 GMT

Hi Gaurav,

I can confirm the inputs and outputs are pointing to the C: drive. The default geodatabase is still set to the network drive though - could this make a difference?