Software or Hardware?

[mowens]

I'm working on a large part that requires an extreme amount of number crunching. I also just got a new revision of my programming software. Every so often, usually after I'm trying to modify something, it just goes away. Like it gets a brain ache and says, "Screw this, I'm gone."

I can see it being a hardware or a software problem. Since this is a new revision, which usually means new problems, I'm leaning toward software. I have over a week into this but at the rate I'm going it's going to take a long time to finish. I've been thinking about starting over using an older version, but if I have the same problems I will have wasted that time.

What do you think?

[Jeff]

Are you keeping an eye on your CPU temperatures? It could be throttling back if it gets too hot.

[mowens]

I haven't looked. Good idea.

[Here's Johnny!]

What version of CPU chip do you have? The 13th and 14th generation chips are much faster then the previous generations.

[gcode]

Also keep track of Used Ram and Available Ram on the Performance page of the Task Manager
If the new version of the software has a memory leak, you could be running out of memory
It's shocking how many IT departments will low ball our PC's when specing out the RAM.

[mowens]

It's an HP Z4 G4 Workstation

Intel Xeon W-2135 CPU @ 3.70GHz 6 core

32 GB Ram, 14.9 GB available