Re: emacs *very slow* to launch
On Tue, 16 Jun 1998, Nick Moffitt wrote:
> On Tue, 16 Jun 1998, Eric House wrote:
[...]
> > I launch emacs by typing 'emacs' at the cmd line, and it takes *at
> > least* five minutes to come up. Once up, it works just fine. And
> > other apps don't seem to have this problem: they launch as quickly
> > as ever.
>
> This is the behavior I've come to expect from emacs. Eighteen
> Megs And Constantly Swapping.
> It's a huge app! What sort of hardware do you have? What version
> of Emacs? I wouldn't run it on anything sub-pentium, myself.
>
Nick,
At risk of starting/continuing an editor war thread, I point out that
Emacs is indeed very large, but a 5 minute load time suggests you have a
problem.
I run Emacs all the time on a 486-33 ISA machine with 16 Megs of RAM and
an ide hd. I just timed Emacs loading in less than 9 seconds on that
system, a far cry from 5 minutes.
A heavily loaded disk i/o subsystem will contribute to slow loading of
any large program, not just emacs. What about gcc? Does it load slowly
under similar circumstances? (It is hard to tell the difference between
"runs slowly" and "loads slowly" for a non-interactive program. All
suggestions appreciated.)
I hope someone will help further.
--David
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