Hi,
If you are in a hurry do
touch /tmp/.sockets/audio0
otherwise read on :)
I was qurious about what makes XEmacs so slow at startup. With the help of
the strace(1) utility I found the following interesting behaviour of
XEmacs19. The XEmacs I am using is version 19.16-1 which comes with the
unstable distribution.
When XEmacs starts up it creates a UNIX domain socket and tries to connect it
to /tmp/.sockets/audio0. If this special file does not exist (ENOENT is
returned) it does nanosleep(2) five times and sleeps about 1 second each
time. Only after nanosleeping it will continue loading.
If a plain file named /tmp/.sockets/audio0 is created XEmacs gets
ECONNREFUSED as return value and goes on without nanosleeping or retrying.
This speeds up the startup time for about five seconds on my machine.
/usr/bin/time reports the time going from about 8.7 to 3.7 seconds.
I hope you find this tip useful,
// Heikki
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Tampere University of Technology * Tampere, Finland
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