Re: Tip: how to speed up XEmacs start
On Thu, Dec 18, 1997 at 10:00:58PM +0200, Heikki Vatiainen wrote:
> Hi,
>
> If you are in a hurry do
> touch /tmp/.sockets/audio0
> otherwise read on :)
>
> I was qurious about what makes XEmacs so slow at startup. With the help of
> the strace(1) utility I found the following interesting behaviour of
> XEmacs19. The XEmacs I am using is version 19.16-1 which comes with the
> unstable distribution.
>
> When XEmacs starts up it creates a UNIX domain socket and tries to connect it
> to /tmp/.sockets/audio0. If this special file does not exist (ENOENT is
> returned) it does nanosleep(2) five times and sleeps about 1 second each
> time. Only after nanosleeping it will continue loading.
>
> If a plain file named /tmp/.sockets/audio0 is created XEmacs gets
> ECONNREFUSED as return value and goes on without nanosleeping or retrying.
> This speeds up the startup time for about five seconds on my machine.
> /usr/bin/time reports the time going from about 8.7 to 3.7 seconds.
>
> I hope you find this tip useful,
Wow! I must have a slower machine, but it reduced the time from 20 to 15
seconds. I ran xemacs four times with the file (28s,18s,15s,15s), then removed
the file (20s,20s).
This is probably worth forwarding upstream so that Xemacs (or the particular
.el) can include this speedup.
Cheers
Adrian
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