Revit Server mysterious file size growth

[dfi]

We have a model on our revit server that periodically will grow by 100 - 400mb over a short period of time when there is not much activity on the model. There are not many new objects being added to the model. It is primarily refining objects that are already in the model. We have noticed with this increase that the performance of the file suffers. SWC takes much longer to the point the users are not SWC'ing as often as they should and the model has a greater tendency to crash during the SWC process. We do a lot of the standard file maintainance tasks to reduce the file size and but it is usually only reduced by a few Mb. The file is about 400mb.

Has anyone else experienced this?

[meng005]

We have a model on our revit server that periodically will grow by 100 - 400mb over a short period of time when there is not much activity on the model. There are not many new objects being added to the model. It is primarily refining objects that are already in the model. We have noticed with this increase that the performance of the file suffers. SWC takes much longer to the point the users are not SWC'ing as often as they should and the model has a greater tendency to crash during the SWC process. We do a lot of the standard file maintainance tasks to reduce the file size and but it is usually only reduced by a few Mb. The file is about 400mb.

Has anyone else experienced this?

We have observed that the model does grow, especially if there are alot of designers working on the project. The best way to reduce the size is through re-creating the model on Revit Server. Basically, you are cleaning up the metadata files, who did what when.

For teams of 10+ active users, you may want to re-create the model once a week. For teams 5+, maybe once a month. A good indication when to re-create the model is when you are having more Revit crashes and Revit Server locks. Re-creating the model mitigates these issues.

[dfi]

We have also noticed that recreating central files helps the file size on the Revit Server typically, but we have also found that sometimes we have extreme file growth over a short period of time (a few hours) where recreating the Central file does not help and the file outside of the Revit Server environment is still larger than it had been previously and can only be reduced in size by only a few Mb.