[16549] in Athena Bugs
Re: sun4 8.2.15: zwgc
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (t. belton)
Wed Dec 9 20:09:13 1998
Date: Wed, 9 Dec 1998 11:55:38 -0500 (EST)
From: "t. belton" <tbelton@MIT.EDU>
To: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
Cc: Angie Kelic <sly@MIT.EDU>, bugs@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: <199812091542.KAA25163@small-gods.mit.edu>
I see regular delays between the time I enter the zwrite command and the
time I can safely start typing, but they are predictable delays based on
how much else I have running - i.e. you can hear my puny Sparc4 swap out.
:)
Go from Netscape to the xterm window and type zwrite, it'll be a while;
stay in the same xterm window and do it again, instantaneous.
I don't consider this a bug either. Just noting.
-todd
On Wed, 9 Dec 1998, Greg Hudson wrote:
> > zwrite will hang briefly before giving the "Type your message now."
> > banner.
>
> There weren't any zephyr changes in 8.2.15. zwrite does not wait any
> length of time before displaying "Type your message now"; the only
> delay I would expect you to see is the delay in finding and loading
> the binary. That could certainly depend on how long it had been since
> the last time you had done so.
>
> Vadim had a very similar problem and it turned out to be (if I recall
> correctly) related to a directory in his path which went through an
> automounter to a misbehaving NFS server.
