Watch task manager while this is happening, see which other processes are
taking cpu. An antivirus or something similar may be interfering. Do you
have an SSD and he doesn't?
On Tuesday, October 27, 2015 at 8:21:42 PM UTC-7, Eric Forgy wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I am at a loss how to proceed, so please forgive a rambling unfocused plea
> for help and I appreciate any questions to help me focus my search for a
> solution.
>
> I have Julia 0.4.0 installed on my MacBook running Windows 10 (I know I
> know :)). My installation is nice and snappy with no issues. I've got Juno
> set up and am quite happy.
>
> My colleague, on the other hand, is having a miserable time running Julia.
> I am not sure how to even ask a question because, as far as I can tell, we
> have identical installations, i.e. the same Julia 0.4.0 from the same
> branch running on Windows 10, but his laptop is a Lenovo. It's no MacBook,
> but it is a new machine with 8GB RAM so should be ok.
>
> Symptoms:
>
> *Painfully slow startup if it even manages to startup at all*
>
> When we launch Julia, the window pops up, but we have only about a 50%
> chance of getting the Julia splash and REPL prompt. We usually give up and
> close the window after 20 seconds or so and try again. If we let it go, it
> can take up to 5 minutes.
>
> *Painfully slow package manager*
>
> Pkg.installed() takes in excess of 60 seconds.
>
> Pkg.update() takes in excess of 60 seconds just to tell us nothing needs
> to update.
>
> Pkg.add("SomePackage") takes in excess of 60 seconds before it takes any
> action.
>
> Some packages cannot load at all, e.g. Nettle and URIParser, which are
> required by our code.
>
> *Painfully slow Juno*
>
> I expect this is just due to the above.
>
> My colleague is an experienced Windows sys admin and and back-end web
> developer. All his other application work fine. Only Julia does not seem to
> be behaving.
>
> We've tried uninstalling Julia and reinstalling, but it doesn't help.
> Where do I start?
>
> Thank you for any help.
>
