symbolizing on a field makes map run real slow

[ErikBlake]

When I attempt to symbolize a layer on one particular field it causes the map to react real slow. It takes the layer a good 3 to 5 minutes to draw causing the map to basically become unresponsive. However if I try to symbolize on any other field in that layer it draws and behaves perfectly fine. I have tried symbolizing the layer in a brand new map along with other established maps and it reacts the same way when I symbolize on that field.

We are at 10.1 sp1.

[XanderBakker · Accepted solution]

Does it help if you create an attribute index on that field?

[ErikBlake]

Xander

Thanks for the reply. For whatever reason it seems to be working now. Not sure what happened. It was working fine for a while then started acting strange yesterday. I forgot to mention that the feature class that the map is using is part of a replication. So I just compressed both databases and synced from default to the replication re-added the layer and it seems to be working great now. However if it continues to act strange and become slow again, I will try and create the attribute index and see if that stabilizes the layer. Thanks again for your time.

[arslanahmad]

keep map resolution at low level then it works pretty well