Date: Sat, 24 Jun 1995 08:42:30 -0400 (EDT) From: Eric Chet <echet@coil.com> To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Xterms hang after open? Message-ID: <199506241242.IAA17297@bronze.coil.com> In-Reply-To: <199506240559.HAA02575@uriah.heep.sax.de> from "J Wunsch" at Jun 24, 95 07:59:44 am
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> > 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. ;-) >
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