Myngus Posted January 11, 2018 Report Share Posted January 11, 2018 Hi, I'm using WO 6.2. I can transfer files on my network from drive to drive nice and fast. I can trigger my show without any issues. However, when I take WO online, or do an update it takes exactly 12 seconds for the display machines to respond. I have plenty of HDD space available on all display and production machines. Display machines are: Win7 64bit 12 core Xeon 10gig NICs Raided Flash Drives Network Switch is Netgear XS716T. Production Machine is similar spec. Anyone had this issue before? cheers James 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderator jfk Posted January 12, 2018 Moderator Report Share Posted January 12, 2018 I am not sure what you are asking here? Are you concerned it takes to long to go online? When WATCHOUT goes online, it checks every file in the show to determine if there has been any changes between Production and Display. Granted, it only transfers them if needed, but it still takes some time to determine that need. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Myngus Posted January 15, 2018 Author Report Share Posted January 15, 2018 sorry mate, should have explained my self better. When I go online for the 1st time, it takes time to transfer and cache. that's normal. but even if i make no changes, and go on line for a 2nd time, it still takes minimum of 12 seconds to update no changes. does it scan the whole file system regardless, even if i've made no changes? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderator jfk Posted January 16, 2018 Moderator Report Share Posted January 16, 2018 sorry mate, should have explained my self better. When I go online for the 1st time, it takes time to transfer and cache. that's normal. but even if i make no changes, and go on line for a 2nd time, it still takes minimum of 12 seconds to update no changes. does it scan the whole file system regardless, even if i've made no changes? Yes, it must in order to determine if any new transfers must be made. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JJ Myers Posted January 17, 2018 Report Share Posted January 17, 2018 Do you have any lengthy timelines? As in, is your main timeline, compositions, or tasks longer than 1-2 hrs? I have found that to be a culprit of unusually long updates. I once had a show where they wanted some projection mapping within a tent to reflect a sunrise to sunset over a 6 hr party. So.... naturally I created a 6 hr timeline. When I went to take the show online to displays, they actually would time out because the update was taking longer than (what appeared to be) a hard coded time out in the software. I had to figure out another game plan. I have since made sure my timelines are always 1 hr or less. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Erik Rönnqvist Posted January 18, 2018 Report Share Posted January 18, 2018 Yes, going online may take quite a while if you have very long timelines, where at least some parts of it contain a continuously changing tween parameter. The reason is that Watchout needs to sample the timeline(s) at quite short intervals to determine which media is visible on which display server(s). Only media that is actually visible at some point during the show on a certain server will be transfered to that server. The reasoning behind this is to shorten the time it takes to transfer media as well as to preserve disk space on the display servers. That said, if you turn on live update, the process will be faster, since in that case all media used in the show will always be transfered to all display servers, thus eliminating the need to sample the timeline(s). /Erik 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mfbergmann Posted February 2, 2018 Report Share Posted February 2, 2018 I am having a similar issue on WO 6.2.1 currently. I don't have any long timelines (main is 10 mins, other aux timelines are less than 20 seconds). The long update is making Live Update unusable, as every time I make a change, I have to wait ~10 seconds. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thomas Leong Posted February 2, 2018 Report Share Posted February 2, 2018 Couple of things to check for - 1. Motherboard Utilities that you really do not want installed. You only need the drivers for on-board devices. 2. If you have a lot of media in the Media Window and a number are not used, take them out. Watchout Production tends to take time caching these, thereby delaying updates to Displays. Good luck! Thomas Leong 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mtjta Posted February 2, 2018 Report Share Posted February 2, 2018 I have the same problem as mfbergman, live updates are not useable, drop image and are too slow. The whole system feels slow since the update to 6.2.1! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ectoplasmosis Posted July 28, 2019 Report Share Posted July 28, 2019 I’m seeing slow update times on 6.4.1 over a 10Gb network. Windows fileshare/iperf latency and bandwidth are perfect. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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