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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.Hawaii.Edu!news.uoregon.edu!news.acsu.buffalo.edu!dsinc!newsfeed.pitt.edu!portc02.blue.aol.com!portc01.blue.aol.com!news-peer.gsl.net!news.gsl.net!newspump.sol.net!howland.erols.net!EU.net!usenet2.news.uk.psi.net!uknet!usenet1.news.uk.psi.net!uknet!uknet!bhamcs!news.ox.ac.uk!news From: Neil Long <neil.long@materials.oxford.ac.uk> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: VI slow start-up Date: 8 Nov 1996 10:56:34 GMT Organization: Department of Materials, University of Oxford Lines: 30 Message-ID: <55v3l2$phq@news.ox.ac.uk> References: <55nlkf$ecr@news.ox.ac.uk> <328272C4.4758@indy.celebration.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: njl2.materials.ox.ac.uk X-Newsreader: NN version 6.5.0 (NOV) "John S. Dyson" <dyson@indy.celebration.net> writes: >Neil Long wrote: >> >> Just curious (again). Is there any reason why vi should start-up so >> slowly when run on the PC console compared to a remote login? >> >> I find it takes 10-12 seconds on the PC consoles and only a couple of secs >> if I rlogin from elsewhere. (no filename and irritatingly reproducible) >> >> I am running 2.2-961014-SNAP on a 486/33 with 20M, plenty of swap unused. >> >Just a guess -- move your console's termcap entry to near the beginning >of the file? >John Yes moving cons25 to the top improves it a lot but it still takes 4 secs-ish compared with 2-ish via an xterm/vt100 network connection. The developers must never use the consoles I guess! Thanks Neil -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ * Neil J Long, Department of Materials, University of Oxford * Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3PH, UK * EMail: Neil.Long@materials.oxford.ac.uk * Tel: +44 (0)1865-273678 Fax: +44 (0)1865-273789