Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2001 09:10:38 -0500 (EST) From: Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu> To: "Floris 'Tamama' van Gog" <floris@vangog.net> Cc: <freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: slow startup of programs Message-ID: <15391.20062.61494.764067@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> In-Reply-To: <003201c187cb$1342a490$1900a8c0@pc48> References: <003201c187cb$1342a490$1900a8c0@pc48>
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Floris 'Tamama' van Gog writes: > Hi, > > I recently installed FreeBSD on an axpci33 Alpha (166Mhz) and it has.. > 'issues' :-) > Every program I run takes 4 seconds to start.. even 'clear'. This doesnt > sound right.. 'halt' on the other hand executes immediately. > > Does anyone have any ideas what this could be and or how i can fix it? I > considered the possibility of a slow video interface, but i recently got > ssh to work properly and it has the same problem when connected from > another computer. There was a performance bug in the runtime dynamic linker/loader (rtld). Most people never noticed because they're not running on obsolete computers whose main memory is slower than some modern disk drives ;-P Doug fixed it when he noticed KDE was slow on a more modern machine. Anyway, use cvsup (or anoncvs, or whatever) & get the latest RELENG_4 (stable) sources. Build & install /usr/src/libexec/rtld-elf. Be careful, messing up the rtld is a good way to end up with a mostly unusable system -- make a backup of /usr/libexec/ld-elf.so.1. Drew To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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