On 12/29/2009 10:22 PM, Bill MacAllister wrote: > > > --On Tuesday, December 29, 2009 02:51:05 PM -0600 Programmer In Training > <p...@joseph-a-nagy-jr.us> wrote: > >> On 12/29/2009 11:13 AM, Brian Morrison wrote: >>> On Tue, 29 Dec 2009 08:47:17 -0600 >>> "Mestl, Robert R" <rrme...@west.com> wrote: >>> >>>> Why does it take so long for pidgin to start up? Takes like 15-20 >>>> secs ... >>> >>> Why do you think that 15-20 seconds is a long time? Seems like very >>> little time to me for a complex application to load and initialise. >>> >> >> Well, Pidgin loads even quicker then that for me and I have several >> plugins installed. Pidgin isn't that complex, though. OOo takes 15-30 >> seconds to load for me and that's way more complex then Pidgin will ever >> dream of being (I hope). > > What evidence do you have that it is Pidgin that is slow and not > something in the network? OpenOffice is really not a good application > to compare Pidgin with. With network applications there are lots of > steps in making a network connection that can cause the application to > stall and wait. How many network connections are you making? How > solid is your DNS? Is your ISP clueless about routing? Etc.
Good points, but I connect to about 10 accounts, via an anonymous proxy relay service (SOCKS5) for all but one and it still loads up quicker then for the OP (and I load it up via a batch file that enables a debugging log). Connecting, though, is a different story though and I don't count that as part of load up time. I consider load up time from the time I click on the quick launch icon to the time I see my buddy list window. > In the end though, if it is only slow on start up, then why do you > care? For me pidgin starts up automatically as part of my login > process, connects to 5 IM servers and is up for 10-12 hours. Spending > an extra 10 seconds at start up is really not worth worrying about. > > Bill > Another salient point.
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