topic High memory usage in ArcGIS Pro Questions

High memory usage

JoshSaad1 — Mon, 30 Jan 2017 19:38:42 GMT

Just throwing this out there for the developers. I just finished Getting to Know ArcGIS Pro. Chapter 8 deals with rendering temporal data in 3D. While browsing the map to review the 3D layers, ArcGIS Pro was using 12 GB of system memory. I thought that seemed a bit high. I'm using a Dell OptiPlex 7010, which isn't the mightiest of computers, and maybe this wouldn't be an issue if I had a better graphics card. Either way it may be something to look into. Thanks.

Re: High memory usage

DougBrowning — Tue, 31 Jan 2017 18:18:23 GMT

If you do not have a dedicated video card with a GPU it will have to simulate one and it eats ram like crazy. I was getting frustrated with Pro being so slow on my box, sometimes unusable. Then I tested Pro out on a coworkers personal gaming machine. Machine has 64 GB of ram and a really nice video card with 6 GB of its own ram. Pro was so fast it was almost hard to use since you would zoom right past stuff. It really flies with a good card and it really changed my view of Pro.

We had the same issue on a Cloud machine. With no GPU it brings the whole cloud farm to its knees.

Re: High memory usage

JoshSaad1 — Tue, 31 Jan 2017 18:33:35 GMT

Good to know. I'll have to keep that in mind when it comes time to upgrade. Thanks.