On Sat, 4 Feb 2006 11:30:09 +0900 Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sat, 4 Feb 2006 04:16:28 +1000 David Seikel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > babbled: > > > It used to start up slowly for me to. So I whip out oprofile to > > test, and now it starts up instantly. Did you fix this when I > > wasn't looking? > > no??? -maybe reboot the machine (or flush all disk caches etc. etc.) > and restart e to make sure nothing is loaded try? really all it does > at startup is load some theme data (as e is doing ALL the time while > it runs - nothing new) and it lists all files in your $PATH so it has > a list of all executables to hunt through (as it will need this soon > enough). the reason it loads it then is this list may change as u may > install thing in between. i am suspectin g doing this listing is > what';s slow - but why? how can simply LISTING the constents of maybe > 10 directories (in your $PATH) take up 10 seconds? thats why i want > to see the oprofile info. the other options are to literally go into > the code for the exebuf show call and put printfs every 2nd line that > print out a timestamp (from ecore_time_get()) as a delta from the > previous timestampe they got and then see which call takes the most > wall-clock time then go from there. Well, I'm updating now, so when that is finished I'll see what happens after a reboot.
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