topic Overview Processing Time in Data Management Questions https://community.esri.com/t5/data-management-questions/overview-processing-time/m-p/532897#M30173 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>I am generating overviews for a very large dataset and am wondering if the processing times I am seeing are reasonable.&nbsp; My dataset is composed of 3384 tiff files, each 293 MB each.&nbsp; There are approximately 1600 overviews to create.&nbsp; The process has been running continuously for 25 days and it is 62% complete. The computer I am running it on is a Windows XP 64 bit machine with 12 GB of RAM. I am running build 2800 of ArcGIS 10.&nbsp; </SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Is this an appropriate length of processing for this size of dataset? Is there anything I can do to speed up this processing or any future processing of this size?</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Thanks</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Sarah Wach</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>Manitoba Hydro</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Fri, 25 Mar 2011 14:38:15 GMT SarahWach 2011-03-25T14:38:15Z Overview Processing Time https://community.esri.com/t5/data-management-questions/overview-processing-time/m-p/532897#M30173 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>I am generating overviews for a very large dataset and am wondering if the processing times I am seeing are reasonable.&nbsp; My dataset is composed of 3384 tiff files, each 293 MB each.&nbsp; There are approximately 1600 overviews to create.&nbsp; The process has been running continuously for 25 days and it is 62% complete. The computer I am running it on is a Windows XP 64 bit machine with 12 GB of RAM. I am running build 2800 of ArcGIS 10.&nbsp; </SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Is this an appropriate length of processing for this size of dataset? Is there anything I can do to speed up this processing or any future processing of this size?</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Thanks</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Sarah Wach</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>Manitoba Hydro</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Fri, 25 Mar 2011 14:38:15 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/data-management-questions/overview-processing-time/m-p/532897#M30173 SarahWach 2011-03-25T14:38:15Z Re: Overview Processing Time https://community.esri.com/t5/data-management-questions/overview-processing-time/m-p/532898#M30174 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Hi Sarah,&nbsp; You just made me feel so much better about my own impatience when building overviews.&nbsp; But my computer&nbsp; has been running for 25 hours not days!&nbsp; I am building overviews for a mosaic dataset of about 4000 images (jp2s) which range up to 20 Mb each.&nbsp; Did you find an answer to your question about how to make it run faster?&nbsp; I only have 4 GB of RAM.</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>Very interested,</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>Theresa</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Wed, 30 Mar 2011 22:44:16 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/data-management-questions/overview-processing-time/m-p/532898#M30174 TheresaMenard 2011-03-30T22:44:16Z