On Mon, 29 Aug 2005 20:51:00 +0200
"A.J. Venter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Start the IDE with command ./lazarus: link time approximately 2 minutes,
> Start tthe IDE with command ./startlazarus: link time ranging between 30 and
> 45 minutes (I am not making this up !).
>
> Even the 2 mins is a LOT since nothing else is that slow, but I know
> lazarus/fpc links differently due to the pascal model and for the rest of it
> I'm willing to live with that, according to PS, ld is in an uninteruptable
> sleep, waiting for IO.
I hope your hard drive is not dying ... did you check /var/log/syslog and
messages for possible trouble ?
> Interestingly, while linking the rest of the computer becomes pretty much
> unusable, I suspect my laptop's drive is not of the fastest and this is what
> slows down ld, which in turn ties up the system .
Usually I/O is done quite well in the "background" ...
> What I don't get is why running startlazarus would have such a massive impact
> on these IO times ?
I don't know for sure, as well.
Micha
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