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From: jackiw@cs.swarthmore.edu (Nick Jackiw)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Why does it take forever to launch an app some times???
Message-ID: <2864@carthage.cs.swarthmore.edu>
Date: 11 May 89 13:54:31 GMT
References: <8705@boulder.Colorado.EDU> <3207@ncar.ucar.edu>
Reply-To: jackiw@carthage.UUCP (Nick Jackiw)
Organization: Visual Geometry Project, Swarthmore College, PA
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In article <3207@ncar.ucar.edu> cruff@handies.UCAR.EDU (Craig Ruff) writes:
> 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 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.

A couple of things were going on.

Don't forget, first off, that when you launch an application, you aren't
just entering that application, you're leaving the finder first. Finder
may need to do some cleaning up, such as emptying the trash, saving the
position of any open folder or volume windows which have changed since
its last use, etc.  So the more time you spend diddling in Finder, the
more time likely it will take to leave.

With the file servers, all of this takes much longer. Emptying the trash
of a file located on the server, or launching an application which--no 
matter how small--is remotely stored are almost always going to take
more time than if done on your local volumes, because not only does the
remote volume have to perform all the same functions as the local one, but
it also has to communicate with local to schedule those tasks, etc.

Lastly, even given all this, I must admit I'm often perplexed by the
erratic rates of application launchings.


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