Octave-2.0.12:mips-sgi-irix6.2:Long wait on first use of function file

[John W. Eaton]

On 13-May-1998, Billinghurst, David <address@hidden> wrote:

| I have just installed octave-2.0.12 on a mips-sgi-irix6.2 machine using
| egcs-1.0.2
| 
| Problem
| 
| On the first call of a function in a function file, there is a 40s wait
| with one CPU (of 4) running at 99% utilisation.
| Is this normal?

No.

| The loadpath looks OK, and there are only the files from the
| distribution in it.
| 
| Example:
| 
| cru200:33%octave
| Octave, version 2.0.12 (mips-sgi-irix6.2).
| Copyright (C) 1996, 1997, 1998 John W. Eaton.
| This is free software with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
| For details, type `warranty'.
| 
| octave:1> LOADPATH
| LOADPATH =
| .:/usr/local/libexec/octave/site/oct/mips-sgi-irix6.2//:/usr/local/share
| /octave/site/m//:/usr/local/libexec/octave/2.0.12/oct/mips-sgi-irix6.2//
| :/usr/local/share/octave/2.0.12/m//
| octave:2> t=time()
| t = 895020870
| octave:3> ctime(t)
| ans = Wed May 13 10:54:30 1998
| 
| octave:4> ctime(t)
| ans = Wed May 13 10:54:30 1998

I can't reproduce this problem on any of the systems I use.  Is there
some way on IRIX systems to trace system call activity, so we might be
able to find out where it is spending most of the time?

Thanks,

jwe