topic CPU speed and Memory requirements for ArcHydro and Geoprocessing in Water Resources Questions https://community.esri.com/t5/water-resources-questions/cpu-speed-and-memory-requirements-for-archydro-and/m-p/606428#M3125 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>I'm wondering what others are using to operate ArcHydro. </SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>I'm getting more and more suspicious that most of the current problems I'm having stem from memory issues.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>I've got:</SPAN><BR /><UL><BR /><LI>Windows 7, ArcGIS 10, the latest version of ArcHydro.</LI><BR /><LI>64-bit</LI><BR /><LI>4GB RAM</LI><BR /><LI>300 GHz Duo Core Intel processor</LI><BR /><LI>I'm currently working with a 10' grid DEM 10.2 square miles mask extracted rawdem of 24.41 MB.</LI><BR /></UL><SPAN>Seems like plenty, but is this enough?</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>This is the same configuration they have given everyone in the Department. I'd need "special dispensation" to get more.</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Mon, 16 Apr 2012 19:47:12 GMT MarkBoucher 2012-04-16T19:47:12Z CPU speed and Memory requirements for ArcHydro and Geoprocessing https://community.esri.com/t5/water-resources-questions/cpu-speed-and-memory-requirements-for-archydro-and/m-p/606428#M3125 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>I'm wondering what others are using to operate ArcHydro. </SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>I'm getting more and more suspicious that most of the current problems I'm having stem from memory issues.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>I've got:</SPAN><BR /><UL><BR /><LI>Windows 7, ArcGIS 10, the latest version of ArcHydro.</LI><BR /><LI>64-bit</LI><BR /><LI>4GB RAM</LI><BR /><LI>300 GHz Duo Core Intel processor</LI><BR /><LI>I'm currently working with a 10' grid DEM 10.2 square miles mask extracted rawdem of 24.41 MB.</LI><BR /></UL><SPAN>Seems like plenty, but is this enough?</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>This is the same configuration they have given everyone in the Department. I'd need "special dispensation" to get more.</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Mon, 16 Apr 2012 19:47:12 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/water-resources-questions/cpu-speed-and-memory-requirements-for-archydro-and/m-p/606428#M3125 MarkBoucher 2012-04-16T19:47:12Z Re: CPU speed and Memory requirements for ArcHydro and Geoprocessing https://community.esri.com/t5/water-resources-questions/cpu-speed-and-memory-requirements-for-archydro-and/m-p/606429#M3126 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>I cant speak for Arc Hydro, but from a computing standpoint 4GB of RAM is pretty low for a modern system.&nbsp; Its likely that 1-1.5GB of that RAM is being taken up by just Windows 7 processes.&nbsp; Be glad you dont have Vista as it takes up almost 2gb of RAM just keeping itself going.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>RAM is pretty cheap now a days and with 64b windows there is no upper limit on what your machine can use, so if you have the open slots on the motherboard its well worth your time to ask your IT dept. for more.</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Tue, 17 Apr 2012 12:13:49 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/water-resources-questions/cpu-speed-and-memory-requirements-for-archydro-and/m-p/606429#M3126 MattMead 2012-04-17T12:13:49Z Re: CPU speed and Memory requirements for ArcHydro and Geoprocessing https://community.esri.com/t5/water-resources-questions/cpu-speed-and-memory-requirements-for-archydro-and/m-p/606430#M3127 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>See responses at </SPAN><A class="jive-link-external-small" href="http://forums.arcgis.com/threads/55419-CPU-speed-and-Memory-requirements-for-ArcHydro-and-Geoprocessing?p=193193&amp;posted=1#post193193" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://forums.arcgis.com/threads/55419-CPU-speed-and-Memory-requirements-for-ArcHydro-and-Geoprocessing?p=193193&amp;posted=1#post193193</A><SPAN>.</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Thu, 26 Apr 2012 14:16:29 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/water-resources-questions/cpu-speed-and-memory-requirements-for-archydro-and/m-p/606430#M3127 MarkBoucher 2012-04-26T14:16:29Z