Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!iuvax!mailrus!ncar!cruff
From: cruff@ncar.ucar.edu (Craig Ruff)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Why does it take forever to launch an app some times???
Message-ID: <3207@ncar.ucar.edu>
Date: 10 May 89 15:29:48 GMT
References: <8705@boulder.Colorado.EDU>
Reply-To: cruff@handies.UCAR.EDU (Craig Ruff)
Organization: Scientific Computing Division/NCAR, Boulder CO
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In article <8705@boulder.Colorado.EDU> stevens@boulder.Colorado.EDU (Curt Stevens) writes:
>I am wondering why sometimes applications launch quite quickly and other
>times it takes quite a while. I know the desktop is a sequential file,
>but if I launch an app and it starts slow, then I quit and launch again,
>the app starts much faster. What gives?

I just saw this very same thing happen yesterday.  I had just mounted a couple
of NFS file systems via a GatorBox.  Then I started a small application.
It took a minute easily before the name appeared on the menu bar.  During
that time, the little AppleShare arrows were visible.  I don't know what
was going on.
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