topic Re: How long should Dissolve take? in Geoprocessing Questions https://community.esri.com/t5/geoprocessing-questions/how-long-should-dissolve-take/m-p/307476#M10671 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>For future reference... since I presume that you found out via the help that it can take a long time and there are some suggestions in the help to speed things up</P><P><A href="http://desktop.arcgis.com/en/desktop/latest/tools/data-management-toolbox/dissolve.htm" title="http://desktop.arcgis.com/en/desktop/latest/tools/data-management-toolbox/dissolve.htm">Dissolve—Help | ArcGIS for Desktop</A> </P><P>specifically the link on processing large datasets</P><P><A href="http://desktop.arcgis.com/en/desktop/latest/tools/supplement/tiled-processing-of-large-datasets.htm" title="http://desktop.arcgis.com/en/desktop/latest/tools/supplement/tiled-processing-of-large-datasets.htm">Tiled processing of large datasets—Help | ArcGIS for Desktop</A> </P><P>​</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 03 Sep 2015 03:46:52 GMT DanPatterson_Retired 2015-09-03T03:46:52Z How long should Dissolve take? https://community.esri.com/t5/geoprocessing-questions/how-long-should-dissolve-take/m-p/307475#M10670 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>I started to Dissolve a moderately-large (~31,507 arcs) multi-attribute feature class some 20 hours ago. It's still running, entirely in memory (no file updates in the target geodatabase). How long should this take? When should I cancel processing because it will never complete? How might I speed up this processing?</P><P></P><P>ArcMap 10.1 SP1 for Desktop, build 3143</P><P>Dell Precision T3600, Intel Xeon 3.6 GHz CPU, 32 GB RAM, 64-bit Windows 7</P></BODY></HTML> Tue, 04 Aug 2015 22:27:17 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/geoprocessing-questions/how-long-should-dissolve-take/m-p/307475#M10670 RalphHaugerud 2015-08-04T22:27:17Z Re: How long should Dissolve take? https://community.esri.com/t5/geoprocessing-questions/how-long-should-dissolve-take/m-p/307476#M10671 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>For future reference... since I presume that you found out via the help that it can take a long time and there are some suggestions in the help to speed things up</P><P><A href="http://desktop.arcgis.com/en/desktop/latest/tools/data-management-toolbox/dissolve.htm" title="http://desktop.arcgis.com/en/desktop/latest/tools/data-management-toolbox/dissolve.htm">Dissolve—Help | ArcGIS for Desktop</A> </P><P>specifically the link on processing large datasets</P><P><A href="http://desktop.arcgis.com/en/desktop/latest/tools/supplement/tiled-processing-of-large-datasets.htm" title="http://desktop.arcgis.com/en/desktop/latest/tools/supplement/tiled-processing-of-large-datasets.htm">Tiled processing of large datasets—Help | ArcGIS for Desktop</A> </P><P>​</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 03 Sep 2015 03:46:52 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/geoprocessing-questions/how-long-should-dissolve-take/m-p/307476#M10671 DanPatterson_Retired 2015-09-03T03:46:52Z