I use AutoCAD at work and ever since they upgraded me to version 2007 a couple of months ago I routinely have to attempt starting it a half dozen times before it will load. I will invariably report that it can’t find a license sever. I hit ‘Cancel’ and instead of just shutting off it will pop up a ‘Warning’ box that informs me I’m not authorized to use that application. I have to hit an ‘OK’ button to clear the screen allowing me another attempt. I am not the only one either, every AutoCAD user has the same issue.
Turns out our licensing server resides not on a box in our computer room, but in one at our company HQ, 700 miles away in New Jersey, so AutoCAD wasn’t getting a response in a timely manner. To fix the problem and environment variable had to be added to everyone’s PC — FLEXLM_TIMEOUT=1000000.
I know the speed of light is fast, but apparently on our network it can’t routinely make a 1400 mile round trip in under a second.
Miata Top Transitions since 01/01/08: 320
Under perfect conditions, this should take about 15 milliseconds. However, the “license check” could take several trips up and down the pipe. And if the server is busy or the pipe is busy, it could take longer.
Just be glad it only happens at start up time…
Not so much busy as small or maybe the Cat 5 cable was just accidentally run under a chair mat in the computer room. đŸ˜‰
We are constantly complaining of network speed and it is always poo-pooed by IT in Florham Park which makes it so much sweeter when we get visitors from there and they marvel how slow things are.