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Re: Very slow startup on Windows
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Tatsuro MATSUOKA |
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Re: Very slow startup on Windows |
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Fri, 24 Feb 2012 14:10:18 +0900 (JST) |
--- On Fri, 2012/2/24, Daniel J Sebald wrote:
> On 02/23/2012 06:06 PM, David Boone wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > On Windows XP, I've been running into the issue where just starting the
> > octave process takes several minutes to complete. During this time, CPU
> > usage is 100%, but no other activity seems to be occurring (ie, no disk
> > access, no network access.) Using Process Explorer doesn't show any open
> > files during this time. RAM stays at 16,000 K most of the time but
> > occasionally drops to ~ 14,100 K for a very brief periods of time. After a
> > few minutes the process finally spits out the name& copyright info and
> > from then on appears to function normally and quickly.
> >
> > I've reproduced this with both 3.4 and 3.6 and on more than 1 XP machine.
> > With 3.6 I even used a fresh install of XP and Octave within Virtualbox and
> > the problem remained, even with this virgin environment.
> >
> > Any help or ideas to fix this would be greatly appreciated,
>
> Dave,
>
> This may be an issue in gnuplot. I didn't read too closely, but a
> couple weeks ago were a few entries regarding generating fonts at startup:
>
> http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.graphics.gnuplot.devel/10705
>
> Does this fit your scenario?
>
> Dan
gnuplot is executed when the first plot is executed on Octave.
Perhaps gnuplot does not concern the slowness in the start up.
Regards
Tatsuro