app slow down

[Kragen Sitaker]

In article <39CD415A.CC498224 at uni-bremen.de>, me  <hburde at uni-bremen.de> wrote:
>My application shows strange delays at several points. Opening Window a)
>needs 2 minutes - opening another similar Window b) 2 secounds. The
>application does not do any
>computations that can cause such delays. I used truss to pin down the
>problem . The interpreter sleeps in read - 60..120 secounds - read(6,
>0x0071FD7C, 5120)       (sleeping...) - and then starts again.

Are you doing any network stuff?  This sounds like a DNS setup
problem.  Does emacs also take a long time to start?  :)

What is file descriptor 6?  Does it come from an open call, a socket
call, a dup call, or something else?
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<kragen at pobox.com>       Kragen Sitaker     <http://www.pobox.com/~kragen/>
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