I am trying to create a new "Cartway" feature class using the buffer tool on a centerline feature class with ~750,000 features in ArcGIS 10.1 SP1. The tool has basic parameters as inputs, such as "FULL", "ROUND", and "ALL", and background geoprocessing is disabled.
The problem I am having is the tool is stuck at 100% completion and does not finish. However the ArcCatalog.exe process is still working (13% CPU, or 100% / 8 cores). I even let it run over the weekend and it is still not done.
The data and scratch workspace are all on solid state drives (SSD's). There are no "spinners" in this workstation to slow things down, so there should be no bottleneck there. The workstation is a Dell T5500 Precision workstation. The specifications are:
2 x Intel Xeon X5677 (2 physical quad-core CPUs, 8 physical cores total, HT disabled).
20GB RAM
2 x NVIDIA Quadro 600 GPUs
120GB Corsair V12 SSD
120GB Corsair Force GT SSD
Any ideas as to how I can get this to finish?