On Tue, 20 Jul 1999, Kristopher Johnson wrote:
> XEmacs takes an annoyingly long time to start up. It does not appear to
> be using CPU or doing disk access--it just "pauses" for a few seconds
> while starting.
>
> I tried an "strace xemacs" to see what system calls were being made.
> During the slow part of startup, here's what it was doing:
>
> setitimer(ITIMER_REAL, {it_interval={0, 0}, it_value={0, 0}}, NULL) = 0
> uname({sys="Linux", node="funkybox", ...}) = 0
> socket(PF_UNIX, SOCK_STREAM, 0) = 6
> connect(6, {sun_family=AF_UNIX, sun_path="/tmp/.sockets/audio0"}, 22) =
> -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
As far as I remember, this issue has already been raised on this list. If
you create a file named /tmp/.sockets/audio0 (mkdir /tmp/.sockets; touch
/tmp/.sockets/audio0), Xemacs startup will be faster, because it won't
hang looking for a file that doesn't exist. I tried that trick, and it
improved noticeably the startup time.
Francois
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