[7467] in SIPB bug reports
slow exmh
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jacob Morzinski)
Fri Jan 7 18:56:02 2000
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Date: Fri, 07 Jan 2000 18:55:57 -0500
From: Jacob Morzinski <jmorzins@MIT.EDU>
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Aha!
I've found one thing which I'm pretty sure is slowing you down.
Your .exmh-defaults file contains an exceptionally long saved list
of window positions. Tcl deals poorly with long lists -- processing
time scales as N squared. I tested with your .exmh-defaults file
on a fast machine -- a sparc Ultra 5 -- and it took me 90 seconds to
quit exmh.
Disregard talk of renaming files or directories. The first thing
I'd recommend trying is clearing out most of the saved-positions list.
One way is to use exmh's
"Preferences" button,
then "Windows and scrolling" entry,
and then set the "Remember window placement" to OFF.
Quit exmh and restart. With luck, you should be back to fast behavior.
You can re-enable remembered windows if you wish -- clearing
out the 500-member list is the important part.
Let me know if this needs more looking into,
Jacob Morzinski
