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From: chari@killer.DALLAS.TX.US (Chris Whatley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Application launch time
Message-ID: <6984@killer.DALLAS.TX.US>
Date: 31 Jan 89 06:48:09 GMT
References: <195@hydra.gatech.EDU> <7554@potomac.ads.com>
Reply-To: chari@killer.Dallas.TX.US (Chris Whatley)
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In article <7554@potomac.ads.com> jtn@potomac.ads.com (John T. Nelson) writes:

>One reason it takes so long to boot might be that the object oriented
>window stuff takes that long to be created, thus it isn't kernel boot
>time at all but rather the amount of time taken to build the window
>interface.

>Thus the time it takes to launch applications might be due to the time
>it takes to build objects and set up the window interface for that
>particular application.

I'm pretty sure that you are incorrect here. If you do a verbose boot,
you will see thatecking the disks takes an enormous chunk of that 5
minutes. Also, in the release notes, it says to logout and log-in as
'exit' every once in awhile. This, I beleive, relaunches the Window server
as a kludge for garbage collection

Chris

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