On 12/04/2007, at 6:05 PM, Ola Bini wrote:
> I happen to know the reason for this. =)
>
> Since I know that you're still running Java 5, this is caused by our
> chmod-implementation being... not optimal for things older than
> Java 6.
> (Until then, there was no way to do chmod from Java, so the Java
> 1.4 and
> 1.5 implementation shells out to an external command) ... That means
> over 80K shells started, which is the reason for your slowness.
>
> We don't really have a good solution to this problem right now.
> There is
> a JIRA for it, and we're discussing JNI alternatives, though.
That's fair enough. I also noticed I had about 70k old files in
tmp. :-) After cleaning that up it was a bit better but still quite
slow.
Unfortunately I can't upgrade to Java 6 yet as Mac OS X still doesn't
have it... (Come to think of it, there might be a developer preview
somewhere to download...)
Cheers,
Jon
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