<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">On Wed, Sep 23, 2020 at 1:42 AM Sam Overdorf <<a href="mailto:soverdor@gmail.com">soverdor@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><br></div></div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">I asked this once before but did not get an answer.<br>
I use windows 10.<br>
The first time I start up "erl" and (at random times) it takes "erl"<br>
1 min: and 52 sec: to give me a prompt.<br>
<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">At almost 2 minutes, you can rule out slow startup time as the root cause. Erlang isn't particularly fast in startup time, but I've never seen it take more than a second, even on a fairly constrained machine of the modern kind. My bets are:</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">- Antivirus messing with File I/O</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">- DNS</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">- You run in a VM and it has been given almost no resources</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">- The system is waiting on timeouts for calls which fail</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">In a UNIX system, I would recommend to use strace/ptrace/ktrace/dtrace to figure out what is keeping the program in a stalled state. I don't know what to use on Windows 10, but I can't imagine there is no equivalent tool.</div><br></div></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature">J.</div></div>