This was our working theory for awhile; however, it has not so far proven to be the source of the slowdown. (although we have found that setting the TCL_LIBRARY environment variable is a very good idea).
Thanks! -Elizabeth Brett Schwarz wrote: > Item number one is still a bit of a mystery. The init > script is notdramatically different between our 3.5 > server and our 4.0 server. Asomewhat unscientific > attempt to load the 4.0 init script into a 3.5server > showed a similar slowdown, so we do not currently > believe thatthis slowdown is due to a change in the > AOLserver core threadinitialization code between 3.5 > and 4.0 (but we haven't totally ruledthat out). The > one difference we do know of is the use of tcl > packages,but its not yet clear to us how that might > dramatically affect theinitialization time. > > * If auto_path has a lot of directories to check, then > it will take a while to search through the filesystem. > This *may* be the problem you see with packages. When > you do a [package require] it searches for that > package based on the auto_path variable. So, if there > are alot of directories, then the longer it will take > to search. You could try an experiment, and try using > source/load instead of [package require], or see what > auto_path is set as, to see if it is too long. If it > is long, try trimming that to just what is actually > needed. > > --brett > > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software > http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com > > > -- > AOLserver - http://www.aolserver.com/ > > To Remove yourself from this list, simply send an email to > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> with the > body of "SIGNOFF AOLSERVER" in the email message. You can leave the > Subject: field of your email blank. -- AOLserver - http://www.aolserver.com/ To Remove yourself from this list, simply send an email to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> with the body of "SIGNOFF AOLSERVER" in the email message. You can leave the Subject: field of your email blank.
