Phil, > On 05 Mar 2015, at 11:44, p...@highoctane.be wrote: > > Images are starting slow, that's my experience. Here, a Pharo3 on > Windows with quite a bunch of things in it takes six seconds to load > on first launch and three after that. > > And that's on a i7 4770K clocked 3.85GHz with SSD drives. > > It takes less time to revive a VMWare VM :-(
Maybe it is Windows ? Or certain extra stuff that you have in your image that does work at startup ? Because you should see sub second startup times. (This is on the smallest Digital Ocean instance, 1 virtual CPU, 512 Mb RAM, SSD) root@stfx:~/experiments/pharo4# curl get.pharo.org/40+vm | bash % Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed 100 2885 100 2885 0 0 17974 0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 18031 Downloading the latest 40 Image: http://files.pharo.org/image/40/latest.zip Pharo.image Downloading the latest pharoVM: http://files.pharo.org/vm/pharo/linux/stable.zip pharo-vm/pharo Downloading PharoV10.sources: http://files.pharo.org/sources//PharoV10.sources.zip Downloading PharoV20.sources: http://files.pharo.org/sources//PharoV20.sources.zip Downloading PharoV30.sources: http://files.pharo.org/sources//PharoV30.sources.zip Creating starter scripts pharo and pharo-ui root@stfx:~/experiments/pharo4# ./pharo Pharo.image printVersion [version] 4.0 #40535 root@stfx:~/experiments/pharo4# ls -lah Pharo.image -rw-rw-r-- 1 root root 22M Mar 4 14:51 Pharo.image root@stfx:~/experiments/pharo4# time ./pharo Pharo.image eval '100 factorial' 93326215443944152681699238856266700490715968264381621468592963895217599993229915608941463976156518286253697920827223758251185210916864000000000000000000000000 real 0m0.386s user 0m0.184s sys 0m0.028s root@stfx:~/experiments/pharo4# time ./pharo Pharo.image eval '100 factorial' 93326215443944152681699238856266700490715968264381621468592963895217599993229915608941463976156518286253697920827223758251185210916864000000000000000000000000 real 0m0.422s user 0m0.192s sys 0m0.032s root@stfx:~/experiments/pharo4# time ./pharo Pharo.image eval '100 factorial' 93326215443944152681699238856266700490715968264381621468592963895217599993229915608941463976156518286253697920827223758251185210916864000000000000000000000000 real 0m0.863s user 0m0.404s sys 0m0.064s It is the latest (smaller) image, but that should not make much difference. Sven -- Sven Van Caekenberghe Proudly supporting Pharo http://pharo.org http://association.pharo.org http://consortium.pharo.org