Create Map Tile Package tpk faster!

[forestknutsen1]

We are using tpk files as basemaps for a Android application. Which works great. But they take a very long time to generate. The last one was around 8 or 10 days as I recall. I have one building now. It is on day 7 and at around 2.2GB. I would guess that in the end it is going to be over 5GB someplace. So, my question is how can we speed this up. Is it depended on cpu speed? Would getting a more powerful machine help? The source data is in a gdb on the machine's local drive and the output location is also on the local drive.

Right now I have it running on a Lenovo ThinkPad with:

Intel i7-4800MQ @ 2.70GHz

16GB RAM

NVIDIA Quadro K2100M

ArcGIS 10.2

Looking at task manager it does not look like I am using much of the machine's resources...

[sblazeycov]

Brilliant!  I love that a post from 2015 was still helpful today.  I was struggling to Create a TPK from ArcGIS Pro.  Thanks to this, I published it to ArcGIS Server and created the tile cache there, then was able to quickly export to TPK.  High five!