Re: XEmacs has slow startup

1999-07-21 Thread Kristopher Johnson
Francois GELIS wrote: > > 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. > > [...] > > As far as I remember, this issue h

Re: XEmacs has slow startup

1999-07-20 Thread Francois GELIS
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

Re: XEmacs has slow startup

1999-07-20 Thread Mark Brown
On Tue, Jul 20, 1999 at 08:29:42AM -0400, Kristopher Johnson wrote: > I haven't looked at the XEmacs source code yet to figure out what it's > doing, or why. My unenlightened guess is that it's trying to open some > audio stream, retrying several times, and eventually giving up. > Does anyone kn

Re: XEmacs has slow startup

1999-07-20 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "Kristopher" == Kristopher Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Kristopher> Does anyone know what it's doing here, whether it's Kristopher> important, and whether there is some way to either make it Kristopher> work better No, not at all. Kristopher> or to turn it off completely? This is some

XEmacs has slow startup

1999-07-20 Thread Kristopher Johnson
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(