On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 3:03 AM, Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@xxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > > You could also try to set it to /bin/false, just so you know if the delay > is caused by the shell startup. > > In my experience, such intermittent delays are often triggered by some > (mostly unnecessary) calls to either DNS (which might hang for quite some > time) or domain controllers (same). These can be triggered by shell > startup looking for the user or host name. > > However, I am just fishing here, as I cannot begin to get an idea what is > happening on your side. > > Also, it does not help that the platform is Windows, an OS I am mostly > unfamiliar with. But there have to be profiling tools for that platform > where you should be able to see what function is blocking (I assume it is > a blocking call, of course). > > Ciao, > Dscho Toggling core.pager btwn /bin/false and less is slow the first time, then quick subsequent times. Setting core.pager to "echo no pager" gives the same behavior. What would be handy is a windows version of strace, but the one that I found doesn't seem functional. gdb is useless for this (so far, anyway). I think it's time to sleep on this. Thanks - Eric -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
