Re: Very slow startup on Windows

[Tatsuro MATSUOKA]

--- On Fri, 2012/2/24, Daniel J Sebald  wrote:

> On 02/23/2012 06:06 PM, David Boone wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > On Windows XP, I've been running into the issue where just starting the 
> > octave process takes several minutes to complete.  During this time, CPU 
> > usage is 100%, but no other activity seems to be occurring (ie, no disk 
> > access, no network access.)  Using Process Explorer doesn't show any open 
> > files during this time.  RAM stays at 16,000 K most of the time but 
> > occasionally drops to ~ 14,100 K for a very brief periods of time.  After a 
> > few minutes the process finally spits out the name&  copyright info and 
> > from then on appears to function normally and quickly.
> >
> > I've reproduced this with both 3.4 and 3.6 and on more than 1 XP machine.  
> > With 3.6 I even used a fresh install of XP and Octave within Virtualbox and 
> > the problem remained, even with this virgin environment.
> >
> > Any help or ideas to fix this would be greatly appreciated,
> 
> Dave,
> 
> This may be an issue in gnuplot.  I didn't read too closely, but a 
> couple weeks ago were a few entries regarding generating fonts at startup:
> 
> http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.graphics.gnuplot.devel/10705
> 
> Does this fit your scenario?
> 
> Dan

gnuplot is executed when the first plot is executed on Octave.
Perhaps gnuplot does not concern the slowness in the start up.

Regards

Tatsuro