Thank you thank you Tony. Yes, we are using different antivirus software
and that was the culprit. Things are happy snappy now :)
On Wednesday, October 28, 2015 at 12:28:07 PM UTC+8, Tony Kelman wrote:
>
> 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.
>>
>
