Re: long pause before exiting

[Hwanjo Heo]

Yes. It turns out that close() of the history file is blocking when exiting. 
The delay is now gone by disabling the history. Thank you very much przemek and 
John!

Hwanjo

On Jan 21, 2010, at 12:20 PM, John W. Eaton wrote:

> On 21-Jan-2010, Przemek Klosowski wrote:
> 
> | On 01/21/2010 02:47 AM, Hwanjo Heo wrote:
> | 
> | > I'm using Octave to solve multiple automatically generate equations from 
> my perl scripts.
> | 
> | > The problem is that solving a simple equation takes more than 15
> | > seconds and I suspect the major delay is contributed by a long
> | > pause exiting Octave.
> 
> | > Is this normal? Can I accelerate the quitting process in some ways?
> 
> I don't notice any long delay when exiting Octave, so I suspect
> some problem unique to your system.  Is your home directory mounted
> over some extremely slow network link?  That could cause Octave to
> take a long time to write its history file, for exmaple.
> 
> | I suggest that you use one of the approaches where Octave is once run as
> | a subprocess, and you pass multiple commands to it. A simple way is
> | to run it in a pipe as 'octave -q'
> 
> I also highly recommend upgrading to the latest stable release.
> 2.1.73 is really really really old now.
> 
> jwe
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