Re: delayed app start

"James J. Weinkam" <jjw@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>johnsuth@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>> In <e32HD5aAHQzV092yn@xxxxxxxxx>, anti@xxxxxxxxxxxx (Dushan Mitrovich) writes:
>>
>>> After upgrading from eCS 1.1 to 1.2 recently, I've noticed that when
>>> some apps are started for the first time after boot-up, there's a 12-
>>> 13 second delay. Have any of you seen the same thing? What would
>>> cause it?
>>
>> I sometimes see that a long time after boot. The solution is to reboot.
>>
> That depends. There are at least two circumstances that can slow down
> starting apps that a reboot won't help.
>
> If you have many apps running, starting a new one or switching to an
> open one you havent't used for quite a while can take a long time be-
> cause of the swapping involved. Rebooting certainly appears to "fix"
> this but only because the memory usage circumstances are not the same.
> You could avoid the problem by having fewer open apps.
>
> If you are on a lan and have connections to machine(s) that are turned
> off or booted to a different os, DOS and WinOS2 apps take a while to
> start apparently because initializing the DVM involves checking each
> drive and it must have a rather long time out for each "missing" con-
> nection. Going to sharing and connecting and getting rid of the of-
> fending connections fixes this.

Rebooting is not the answer, because I shut down every night and reboot
every morning anyway, and the behavior is always there.

I have 320 MB of RAM and most of that is unused when I encounter the delay.
There are usually few other apps running at the same time. Besides, the
circumstances when I invoke the delayed app are the same as they were under
eCS 1.1, when the delay didn't exist.

- Dushan

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