Improving Catia startup performance

[fighterpilot]

I have a Dell 650 dual 2.8 GHz Xeon workstation w/ 2GB ram. Startup time for Catia runs anywhere from 40-45 seconds. Any way to improve this?

Thanks....

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Fighter Pilot
Manufacturing Engineer

 

[catiajim]

I'd be exstatic with that. Our setup takes between 3 and 4 minutes the first time every morning. I think it is due to many of our startup files being served off of a Unix Server using Automount and SAMBA. On the AIX side, it's about 15-30 seconds.

 

[jackk]

It takes us 4-5 minutes in Everett.

Which BlockPoint are you running? I'd like to have our Sys Admin folks talk to yours.

 

[fighterpilot]

Ok, since my numbers were WAY off from what others got I figured I'd better put a watch on it to make sure I wasn't sitting in some time warp.

Startup time after a reboot: 1 min 55 sec
Startup time after initial Catia session: 7 sec.

Jack, I'm running V5R15SP0HF3 but I'm not connecting to Enovia. I'm just using BV5MGR to select the Catia version. Our license servers are local here in STL.

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Fighter Pilot
Manufacturing Engineer

 

[jackk]

We're running the same as you. It seemed to get slower when we went to R15, at least to me. But it always has taken a minute or two.

 

[KooKoo]

Don't know how much it will help (I' ve never timed it) or if you already have them set but there are a few environment variables you can use to disable the splash screen, the background, and the opening of a Product when you start V5. I found in the latter, if I don't let CATIA open a Product it takes long to create a new document anyways (File, New, ...)

I don't have them of the top of my head but they're posted on catiaV5forum and perhaps here also.

 

[catiajim]

You might have your sysadmin look at what they are doing with log & stat files when you start up CATIA. We have a script that copies them to an AIX server, and we found that as that directory became more full, it took longer for Windows to mount it. We now empty that log file directory every night (move them somewhere else).

Another thing to look at is to empty your own log directory. CATIA doesn't do a very good job cleaning this up, so it also gets very full. Again, when our script copies out the log & stat files to the server, as this directory gets larger, CATIA startup times slow down.