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To: Charles Henrich <henrich@crh.cl.msu.edu>
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Subject: Re: Slow startup of processes? 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 09 Jun 95 01:00:16 EDT."
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From: David Greenman <davidg@Root.COM>
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Date: Thu, 08 Jun 1995 22:16:28 -0700
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>How come for no apparent reason it takes forever (5+ seconds) to start up a
>process thats been running continually (for example openening another xterm.

   Try adding something like this to your .login (assuming csh):

eval `tset -s`

>Is there some weird vm thing going on here?

   Not likely.

-DG