Revit Server: Slow performance with hard disk encryption.

Autodesk Support

Oct 8, 2023

Products and versions covered

Issue:

When using hard drive encryption (on the workstation), significantly reduced Revit Server performance is experienced.

Causes:

Interactions with Revit Server can lead to many read/write operations to the hard drive.
 
The disk encryption can increase the time required from a few milliseconds to a hundred or more.
 
With the number of operations required, this time adds up to a significant performance reduction.

Solution:

Disable the drive encryption, and check if the Revit Server performance is improved.

Another option would be to try disabling disk encryption for just the %TMP% folder (this is where the files are initially downloaded and where the main performance hit would occur).

Products:

Building Design Suite; Revit; Revit Architecture; Revit MEP; Revit Structure; Robot Structural Analysis;

Versions:

2014; 2015;

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