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Bad performance in ArcGIS Pro

red — Mon, 26 Feb 2024 10:43:30 GMT

Hi,

I'm using ArcGIS Pro in the newest version on a Dell Precision 3571 Laptop with Intel i7 12700H CPU, 64GB RAM and Nvidia T600 graphics.

I think the technical specs of my device are not so bad but the performance of ArcGIS Pro is not good at all. In my project there are about 20 layers, all in the same gdb with the same coordinate system. I'm switching between two or three background maps (OpenStreetMap layer included in Pro and other WMS services). I have quite a few text fields in the map and have three or four layouts open.

Even simple tasks like changing the color of a polygon take several seconds. Also other stuff like field calculations in the attribute table or selecting objects by attribut take longer than I think they should. Moving a text field also takes some time.

In the past I've used ArcMap on much older hardware but the performance for similar tasks was much, much faster.

Am I using the wrong hardware? What can I do to improve the performance?

Regards

Robert

Re: Bad performance in ArcGIS Pro

Eugene_Adkins — Mon, 26 Feb 2024 11:51:40 GMT

Have you checked the system requirements? If you meet the requirements, what version of Pro are you using?

Re: Bad performance in ArcGIS Pro

red — Mon, 26 Feb 2024 12:24:07 GMT

I'm using the newest version: 3.2.2

I've checked the requirements, yes:

CPU: Optimal 10 cores - I have 14 cores

Platform x64: yes

Storage: 32 GB - I have 250 GB free space

RAM: Optimal 64 GB - I have 64 GB

Dedicated graphics memory: I have shared memory but with 64 GB that shouldn't be a problem?

DirectX 12: yes

So it's well above the requirements.

Re: Bad performance in ArcGIS Pro

George_Thompson — Mon, 26 Feb 2024 12:46:12 GMT

Where are the geodatabases being stored (cloud, local drive, network drive, etc.) in relation to the Pro client?

What type of geodatabases are being used: file / enterprise / other?

If Enterprise, do you have it enabled for a geodatabase (i.e., SDE schema)?

If you remove the WMS services, does the Pro map work better?

Re: Bad performance in ArcGIS Pro

Eugene_Adkins — Mon, 26 Feb 2024 12:50:32 GMT

See @George_Thompson reply. The location of your data can have a negative effect on performance. Especially if your data is cloud based but you’re connected directly to it.

Re: Bad performance in ArcGIS Pro

red — Mon, 26 Feb 2024 14:29:58 GMT

All data is stored on the local drive. It's a file geodatabase.

Removing WMS services gives a small improvement but not much.

Re: Bad performance in ArcGIS Pro

George_Thompson — Mon, 26 Feb 2024 15:23:12 GMT

Based on my experience, local data in a fGDB has good performance.

Is the fGDB stored in a OneDrive / Google Drive folder that is being backed up automatically?

Have you tried a new project and the performance is the same?

Is the project stored on a local drive or network drive? Is it being backed up with OneDrive or Google also?

Is the performance suboptimal for all layers in the fGDB or just certain layers?

Can you provide some more information about the layers that are slow?

Re: Bad performance in ArcGIS Pro

MarkBockenhauer — Mon, 26 Feb 2024 16:43:34 GMT

You could try using the Diagnostic Monitor to see if it indicates something of interest.

Diagnostic Monitor—ArcGIS Pro | Documentation

Mark

Re: Bad performance in ArcGIS Pro

Bud — Mon, 26 Feb 2024 17:03:12 GMT

Disable functionality in ArcGIS Pro to make it faster?

For example, disable indexing.

Re: Bad performance in ArcGIS Pro

RhettZufelt — Mon, 26 Feb 2024 17:27:49 GMT

I just thought that was expected. The things you list always seem to run faster in ArcMap than in any version of Pro that I have tried.

Re: Bad performance in ArcGIS Pro

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Re: Bad performance in ArcGIS Pro

Eugene_Adkins — Mon, 26 Feb 2024 19:32:53 GMT

I mentioned the location of the data it in case @red was new to Pro. It's something I learned the hard way. Sometimes the performance can be improved by discovering a "legit" bug. BUG-000153703 (which was thought to only be related to the parcel fabric network) is a good example. It made Pro impossible to use when it came to basic functions and edits due to slowing response and performance, but it was fixed in a later release. It took me a long time to get that bug identified with tech support. As you implied, it's frustrating.

Re: Bad performance in ArcGIS Pro

Bud — Mon, 26 Feb 2024 19:38:18 GMT

I second the OneDrive thing. I would recommend disabling OneDrive, if you can.

https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-pro-questions/new-mobile-gdb-database-view-does-not-show-up-in/m-p/1276892/highlight/true#M67780

https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-pro-questions/deleted-mobile-geodatabase-view-reappears-after/m-p/1278713/highlight/true#M67986

ArcGIS Pro and Cloud Storage Services

Re: Bad performance in ArcGIS Pro

red — Tue, 27 Feb 2024 07:36:06 GMT

It's on the local drive. No OneDrive, Google Drive or similar is being used or installed. The data is only backed up when ArcGIS Pro is not running.

Re: Bad performance in ArcGIS Pro

red — Tue, 27 Feb 2024 08:16:24 GMT

Thanks, I will try that.

Re: Bad performance in ArcGIS Pro

red — Tue, 27 Feb 2024 08:17:33 GMT

I already tried disabling most of what is listed there. It didn't help much.

Re: Bad performance in ArcGIS Pro

red — Tue, 27 Feb 2024 08:22:56 GMT

This is not very encouraging. I was hoping there is something I can do. Maybe a high performance PC with great cooling and dedicated high performance graphics or something like that...

Re: Bad performance in ArcGIS Pro

red — Tue, 27 Feb 2024 08:25:19 GMT

I've run the "ProPAT and PerfTools v16" and got these results:

Level 1: 2.982

Level 2: 5.924

Level 3: No spatial analyst license

I thought I would be able to compare this to other peoples results but I can't find anything. Are these results good or bad?

Re: Bad performance in ArcGIS Pro

AlexanderDanielPratama — Tue, 27 Feb 2024 10:21:15 GMT

That's quite impressive you have. I'd like to help you since my office laptop and home PC are fast enough for ArcGIS Pro. My office laptop is ASUS ROG G16 (SSD NVME, 32 RAM, NVIDIA RTX 4050). Just want to clarify, are you using NVME in your C-drive. Then, does your Nvidia feature active to accelerate your ArcGIS Pro? I do not have experience using gpu workstation, for common or gaming gpu usually it enough for desktop

Usually in my case, if the NVIDIA runs the ArcGIS Pro performance is quiet good when rendering the data and editing the feature class.

Hope, it helps you

Cheers

Re: Bad performance in ArcGIS Pro

Bud — Tue, 27 Feb 2024 17:54:50 GMT

Are you using a VPN?

A colleague mentioned:

I suspect that it’s the VPN connection that slowed your testing down, rather than the specs of the Laptop (and improved specs wouldn’t really help here). That’s been my experience with my Laptop: ArcGIS Pro performs adequately in the office, but is significantly slower when working remotely over a VPN.
GIS applications are very network traffic-intensive. So when that data needs to move over the internet as it does with a VPN connection, the performance can degrade significantly.
The widely accepted solution for Work From Home GIS use is to connect remotely to a computer on the network (through a remote desktop program) and perform the GIS tasks there, rather than working over VPN. That way only display and inputs are being transmitted back and forth, not the data.
There are some other suggestions to improve ArcGIS performance over VPN, but most aren’t practical or entirely effective:
make a local copy of the data so it isn’t transmitted back and forth through the VPN connection
publish feature services and connect ArcGIS Pro to the feature services, rather than directly to the data in the GIS db (not practical to publish services for all the data that you would need to view/edit)
turn off ArcGIS Pro indexing (you’ve already tried this)
use ArcMap instead since it’s somewhat faster over VPN ( 🙂 older suggestion that isn’t viable much longer)
Sources:
https://www.reddit.com/r/gis/comments/wuvhvi/working_remotely_over_vpn/
https://community.esri.com/t5/arcmap-questions/tips-for-improving-speed-during-remote-work-over/td-p/227055
https://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/354979/improving-performance-of-arcgis-pro-while-working-on-a-network