long pause before exiting

[Hwanjo Heo]

Hello,

I'm using Octave to solve multiple automatically generate equations from my 
perl scripts.

For example, a file named test1 with the following commands is generated,

-------------------------------
function y = f (x)
...
...
endfunction

[x,info] = fsolve ("f", [1; 2])
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and I use a command like "octave test1 2>&1" and parse the standard output 
lines to retrieve the roots.

The problem is that solving a simple equation takes more than 15 seconds and I 
suspect the major delay is
contributed by a long pause exiting Octave. There is a significant delay 
between outputing "info = 1" and 
quitting Octave. Even launching Octave and quitting it immediately using the 
quit command takes more than 
15 seconds because of the long pause after commanding quit.

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$ uname -a
Linux anecdotos.cs.purdue.edu 2.6.25.20 #2 SMP Wed Nov 19 12:37:02 EST 2008 
x86_64 Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU 6600 @ 2.40GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux

$ octave
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octave:1> quit

$
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Is this normal? Can I accelerate the quitting process in some ways?

Thank you,
Hwanjo