From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Jun 24 05:39:57 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id FAA07579 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 24 Jun 1995 05:39:57 -0700 Received: from bronze.coil.com (bronze.coil.com [198.4.94.1]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id FAA07573 for ; Sat, 24 Jun 1995 05:39:55 -0700 Received: from localhost (echet@localhost) by bronze.coil.com (8.6.4/8.6.12) id IAA17297; Sat, 24 Jun 1995 08:42:31 -0400 From: Eric Chet Message-Id: <199506241242.IAA17297@bronze.coil.com> Subject: Re: Xterms hang after open? To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de Date: Sat, 24 Jun 1995 08:42:30 -0400 (EDT) Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199506240559.HAA02575@uriah.heep.sax.de> from "J Wunsch" at Jun 24, 95 07:59:44 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 1104 Sender: hackers-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > > As Andreas S. Wetzel wrote: > > > > Also it seems that this problem does not occur, when using a shell other > > than the tcsh shell (I just tried it out with an sh shell, and the window > > just popped up and was there). Again... this is no problem I'm having > > sinc yesterday, but it is a problem I'm having since nearly 2.0R. > > How long's your $path variable? Mine contains 10 elements, and i've > never noticed such behaviour. tcsh is known to perform some (rather > inefficient) lookups along the path in order to build the internal > tables on startup. I have 5 entries in my path. My takes 15 to 60 seconds after I have been using the machine for a while. Even though I have killed all tasks just leaving xwindows, xclock, xperfmon, pppd, few xterms running. The same thing happens when I su. After this pause usually 30 seconds it does a page-in and the prompt comes up. I hope this helps. Eric -- echet@coil.com > > -- > cheers, J"org > > joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ > Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-) >