Re: slow startup

[Levente Torok]

On Thursday 11 September 2008, Przemek Klosowski wrote:
Hi Przemek,

> I have also seen slow startup on my system, but I suspect it's not
> octave's fault because I have seen occasional mysterious slowdowns in
> things like 'ls'. I have a Fedora 4 64-bit patched, and 64-bit octave
> 2.9.8. It doesn't always hang but when it does, it's typically like this:
> 
>     stat(".", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|S_ISVTX|0777, st_size=52572160, ...}) = 0
>     stat(".", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|S_ISVTX|0777, st_size=52572160, ...}) = 0
>     open(".", O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK|O_DIRECTORY) = 3
>     fstat(3, {st_mode=S_IFDIR|S_ISVTX|0777, st_size=52572160, ...}) = 0
>     fcntl(3, F_SETFD, FD_CLOEXEC)           = 0
>     getdents64(3,                            <-------- up to minute-long waits
> 
> I suspect Levente has also a 64-bit system (he said he uses 5GB memory).
> Maybe it's a syscall performance problem. Levente, what kernel do you
> use (send output from uname -a)

No! I use 0.5Gb of memory, Not 5Gb :) I wrote a dot in my former mail but not 
zero suffix.
Does it help if I give a strace output of the startup?
On the other hand I believe the large number of directories from octave-forge 
reasons
the slow startup.
One can say that is not octave failure, however, an average user wants 
octave-forge along with octave.
So this is very typical.
On the other hand this is not unacceptable, just annoying.

Lev


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