Re: [SLUG] slowdown

From: Eben King (eben01@verizon.net)
Date: Tue Feb 12 2008 - 13:13:57 EST


On Tue, 12 Feb 2008, Eben King wrote:

> On Tue, 12 Feb 2008, Matthew Rogers wrote:
>
>> How does the system PERFORM when you turn off the bittorrent client?
>
> I found the delay in a terminal starting was not
> from bash itself ("bash -c exit" takes around 0.002s) and not from rxvt (the
> window pops up right away), so it must be from rxvt figuring out what to do.
> That still happens. (How do I measure that? "time rxvt -e bash -c exit"
> gives an unkillable process.)

Curiouser and curiouser. "rxvt -e bash -c exit" pops us the rxvt window
right away then disappears (after a few seconds) as expected, "time rxvt -e
bash -c exit" hangs. "xterm -e bash -c exit" pauses before appearing, "time
xterm -e bash -c exit" runs in, well it's weird:

eben@pc:~$ time xterm -e bash -c exit

real 0m5.029s
user 0m0.011s
sys 0m0.005s

X is honked up (in a way that hangs rxvt but not xterm)?

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