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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!Germany.EU.net!EU.net!news.eunet.fi!not-for-mail From: count@snafu.muncca.fi (Bror 'Count' Heinola) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.development Subject: Re: emacs (19.28) and freebsd (1.1) problems Date: 24 Nov 1994 18:11:31 +0200 Organization: Muncca UNIX (technical mismanagement) Lines: 33 Message-ID: <3b2e06$ibl@snafu.muncca.fi> References: <JZOUB0WC@math.fu-berlin.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: snafu.muncca.fi In article <JZOUB0WC@math.fu-berlin.de>, Thomas Graichen <graichen@omega.physik.fu-berlin.de> wrote: >yesterday i build emacs 19.28 on freebsd 1.1 and found two problems: >- if i start emacs - the system reads the binary from disk (that i can >listen to) and then it waits ~ 5 seconds (top: emacs is sleeping and the >system is 98 % idle at that time) - can anybody tell me where this is coming >from (it's a 386/387DX40) - is it from dynamic linking (because there are ~ >8 shared libraries to load) - but if so i think the system should'nt be idle >and it is totally reproducable (the next emacs - the same thing) It doesn't happen in my system (486/66, 32M RAM, FreeBSD 1.1R) and I really don't know what could be the cause. How did you compile yours? My emacs binary looks like this; -rwxr-xr-t 1 root 1470464 Nov 6 00:14 /usr/local/bin/emacs-19.28 >- if i start several emacses directly one after another they are all waiting >and if the first one appears (after ~ 5 seconds) on the screen all the >others die (watched with top) I didn't manage to get that to happen either. You seem to have some really weird problems, though. How much memory do you have in your machine? Emacs likes to eat up hefty amounts of it :-) -- Bror 'Count' Heinola # E-mail: # Network admin of muncca.fi Pengerkatu 13b A5 # count@snafu.muncca.fi # Count in IRC 00530 HELSINKI # count@key.hole.fi # "Is that lemon in your tea?" Tel: +358-0-766-041 # ...free your mind... # "No, s'lime."