Workflow Lagging For No Reason

Question

Just created a new workflow and every simple operation (for example opening a tool to configure, pullng over connection wires between tools, moving or creating comment boxes, etc.) are lagging, showing the spinning blue circle for 2-3 seconds before processing the change.  Meanwhile I have existing flows open in separate tabs that are much larger and the operations are processed immediatly.  Why would this happen? The flow that lags is much smaller than the ones that process quickly and are in the same approximat location (MS OneDrive).  I tried creating a copy of the flows that are processing normally, deleting all the tools, and copying over the tools from the slow flow and the lag starts back up again.

Something in the settings maybe?  Bad location?  I'm really stumped.

dwstada · Answer

Hey @Rob48 , I had similar problems with python tools (intelligence suite, etc) - what helped was activating "Disable Auto Configure" in User Settings -> Advanced. This makes it so workflow metadata is not updated each time you interact with a tool (e.g. showing available columns in a sort tool or summarize tool). The annoying part is that you have to constantly use f5 to manually refresh the tool, but performance is better in my opinion.

Rob48 · Answer

Ok thanks for your input OTrieger.  The issue persists with my original WF but the one I copied over all the tools to & saved to the same location does not have the issue.  Going to chalk it up to gremlins for now but if anyone experiences this issue I'd love to hear from you.

OTrieger · Answer

@Rob48

It is hard to tell, but it is not matter how big is the automation but the amount of data that it is processing and type of tools. There are tools that requiring more memory such as Cleanse tool, which is actually a macro.

One additional thing that can impact is the location of the input files, are they saved on the same machine or connected from the server.

It will be very hard for us to know what slowing down your WF.