Re: gitk (or tcl/tk) slow to start?

From: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>
Date: May 17, 2010, 11:51 UTC
Message-ID: <4BF12DA6.9090709@drmicha.warpmail.net>
In-Reply-To: <19441.8527.606063.296769@winooski.ccs.neu.edu>

Eli Barzilay venit, vidit, dixit 17.05.2010 12:58:

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> Every time I run gitk when I didn't use it for a while, it takes a
> long time to start (more than 30 seconds) with no visible cpu load.  I
> tried to strace it, and the result shows that the time is spent
> stat()ing my whole /usr/lib directory:
> 
>   ...
>   stat("/usr/lib/libelf-0.131.so", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0755, st_size=87496, ...}) = 0
>   stat("/usr/lib/libungif.so.4", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0755, st_size=2444, ...}) = 0
>   stat("/usr/lib/libtiff.so.3.8.2", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0755, st_size=360268, ...}) = 0
>   ...
> 
> Is this expected?  Anything that can be done to avoid it?

I don't expect stat'ing /usr/lib to take 30s. How large is it (file size and count)?

> [This is using a new git version (1.7.1), but it's an old OS (Fedora
> 7), so maybe tcl/tk is buggy?]
>

ver += 6 - epsilon ; /* :) */

Michael