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From: mike@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Mike Smithwick)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
Subject: What the hell is SDB doing?
Message-ID: <1991May8.160123.5313@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG>
Date: 8 May 91 16:01:23 GMT
Organization: SF-Bay Public-Access Unix
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Ok, so I am stepping thru some code with SDB. I come to something like
fopen(). The harddrive kicks in (flutter, flutter, flutter), indicating
some sort of activity. And it may stay active for SEVERAL MINUTES! Doing
a memset on 100bytes does the same thing along with most library functions.
Using "t" (which supposedly steps "over" the function) doesn't help either.

Many times it's faster to reboot than to wait for the activity to finish.

So, what's going on?

mike


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