[erlang-questions] erl REALLY slow to startup

[Joe Armstrong]

I hade a similar problem with ubuntu (long startup time) - use
something like strace or truss
(I think on a mac you must use ktrace and kdump) to dump all system
calls in a file. Then  you can stare
at these to see which call took a long time (on ubuntu it was a
symbolic link that was broken which caused
the font cache to be rebuilt every time I created a new window) -
nothing to do with Erlang at all - just a broken
system that happens to bite you when you start Erlang.

/Joe


On Nov 27, 2007 5:43 AM, Andrew Arrow <oneone@REDACTED> wrote:
> I've been typing erl at the prompt and waiting about 20 seconds before
> I get into the Erlang shell on my MacBook 1.83 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo
> machine.  I thought this was normal because it's the only place I have
> ever used Erlang.  But today I tried it from a MacBook Pro 2.85 GHz
> Intel Core 2 Duo machine and it started up immediately!  Is there
> anything I can do to get it to work like that on the MacBook?
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