On 9/30/19 9:54 AM, Chris Angelico wrote:
On Tue, Oct 1, 2019 at 1:56 AM Tobiah <t...@tobiah.org> wrote:
I don't have a lot of information, so here goes a shot in
the dark. One day I started experiencing a delay when
starting python. I'm on Ubuntu 16.04. It takes three
seconds to get a prompt when I type 'python' on the command
line (Python 2.7.12). When I run a script that imports
packages, it takes longer, up to 17 seconds just to do
the imports. Python3 is not affected, and is snappy as
expected.
That's all I know. I'm hoping someone else has seen this.
I'm about ready to wipe the drive and upgrade to 18.04.
Python 2 and Python 3 have completely independent installations, so it
could be a lot of things. First question: Does it take three seconds
*every* time you type 'python', or only the first time? If it's slow
the first time but then fast, it's probably just a matter of disk
caching; running Python 3 doesn't pre-cache the files for Python 2, so
you have to pay the load-time cost anew.
If it's slow every time, though, you may have something messing with
your startup. Try "python -S" and "python -E" see if they're just as
slow. That would be a way to delve into things a bit.
ChrisA
It was much faster with -S and instantaneous with -E. I had a directory
in my PYTHONPATH that I mount with sshfs from a server. For some reason
that mount is very slow. Thanks for helping me figure this out.
Tobiah
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