2.3b2: Slow commands (several seconds) under SunOS / Sparc

[Martin Pool]

On 18 November 2010 04:49, Voelker, Bernhard
<bernhard.voelker at siemens-enterprise.com> wrote:
> Usually `truss -f command` unveils lots of information. But I think this is
> the syscall which is eating much time across all you truss output files:
>
> open64                   .050    1406   1216
>
> Bazaar (or the shell it invokes, or python trying to load many modules, ...)
> tries to open a lot of files which takes rather long. And many attemps fail
> (1216 out of 1406). Using `truss -f ...` will show you what's going on.

In this case it might be worth trying to package bzr into a zip/egg
file: this has a little more cpu overhead, but fewer filesystem round
trips.

How old is this machine, 10+ years?

-- 
Martin