On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 10:17, Dan Tsafrir <da...@cs.technion.ac.il> wrote: > On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 17:22, Jon TURNEY <jon.tur...@dronecode.org.uk> wrote: >> >> [snip] >> So far it seems that (1) emacs takes a long time to start up (2) xterm >> starts up quickly. Are there other X applications that you use and how do >> they behave? > > [snip] > opening xclock takes nearly 30 seconds (half user time, half system time). > So, as you speculated, it turns out this is not just an emacs problem.
I wasn't able to strace emacs, but I am able to strace xclock (brining it up, which when strace-ing takes several long minutes on my netbook, and then immediately killing it). The output is at: http://www.cs.technion.ac.il/~dants/xclock-strace-output.txt.gz Maybe this would provide a clue. --Dan -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/