From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Michael J Gruber Subject: Re: gitk (or tcl/tk) slow to start? Date: Mon, 17 May 2010 13:51:02 +0200 Message-ID: <4BF12DA6.9090709@drmicha.warpmail.net> References: <19441.8527.606063.296769@winooski.ccs.neu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: Eli Barzilay X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon May 17 13:51:09 2010 connect(): No such file or directory Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ODyqi-0006No-EL for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Mon, 17 May 2010 13:51:08 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755059Ab0EQLvB (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 May 2010 07:51:01 -0400 Received: from out1.smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.25]:43551 "EHLO out1.smtp.messagingengine.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754352Ab0EQLvA (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 May 2010 07:51:00 -0400 Received: from compute2.internal (compute2.internal [10.202.2.42]) by gateway1.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0DA0CF7607; Mon, 17 May 2010 07:50:55 -0400 (EDT) Received: from heartbeat2.messagingengine.com ([10.202.2.161]) by compute2.internal (MEProxy); Mon, 17 May 2010 07:50:55 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=messagingengine.com; h=message-id:date:from:mime-version:to:cc:subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; s=smtpout; bh=W23yZ9nWBem0Hh1Tc/FEeOk9PJY=; b=ekEHvzIP9OZ2U/l+gt5mszt2M/Pk0kOq2EzV5Uw39XV4ue3TN3Cf47Z9Q8Nw9DvHJDQjsfRd2aj+Bad4NSl8adRUO1eJ1O03e2F670gRY+OiuzMI4Mc2g1ia3p4uoWVwtPpJAruuuDbDaFlbhFEG/JU3tpnZ+1Oj5g4mzcTBaOM= X-Sasl-enc: dTDhCo1tmKI9V224mEtqA1eNgXsVLubYrj7LUny0E0Nu 1274097054 Received: from localhost.localdomain (heawood.math.tu-clausthal.de [139.174.44.4]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 77E4A55BA9; Mon, 17 May 2010 07:50:54 -0400 (EDT) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.5pre) Gecko/20100503 Lightning/1.0b2pre Lanikai/3.1b2pre In-Reply-To: <19441.8527.606063.296769@winooski.ccs.neu.edu> Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Eli Barzilay venit, vidit, dixit 17.05.2010 12:58: > Every time I run gitk when I didn't use it for a while, it takes a > long time to start (more than 30 seconds) with no visible cpu load. I > tried to strace it, and the result shows that the time is spent > stat()ing my whole /usr/lib directory: > > ... > stat("/usr/lib/libelf-0.131.so", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0755, st_size=87496, ...}) = 0 > stat("/usr/lib/libungif.so.4", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0755, st_size=2444, ...}) = 0 > stat("/usr/lib/libtiff.so.3.8.2", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0755, st_size=360268, ...}) = 0 > ... > > Is this expected? Anything that can be done to avoid it? I don't expect stat'ing /usr/lib to take 30s. How large is it (file size and count)? > [This is using a new git version (1.7.1), but it's an old OS (Fedora > 7), so maybe tcl/tk is buggy?] > ver += 6 - epsilon ; /* :) */ Michael