NAIUA: OpenROAD SIG

OpenROAD Application Startup

I have seen a few emails on the OpenROAD Mailing List that talk about OpenROAD Startup times. This is a white paper that you are free to publish that describes the OpenROAD application startup process. It is applicable for OR 3.0, 3.5, 4.0 and 4.1 client/server applications.

This paper will probably raise more questions than it answers. It should give some background on what happens during OpenROAD Application Startup and potential clues as to how it can be improved. The trace information that is referred in this document is not documented and was designed for internal use.

We have also found that the running with the W4GL.LOG enabled slows things down considerably when multiple applications are running on the same machine. Use the -L flag to specify a unique W4GL.LOG if this is the case.