From help-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu Mon Jun 16 21:53:58 2003 Subject: Re: Unusual slowness with octave 2.1.42 for windows From: Paul Kienzle To: Steven D Ratts Cc: help-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2003 22:52:08 -0400 Steven D Ratts wrote: > > >Hi, > > It will >eventually return and the results appear to be normal, but the lockups make >the system almost complete unusable. > Putting the following in your .octaverc helps: page_screen_output = 0 >Is there anything that might possibly be in my environment or configuration >that could result in such extraordinary slowness? No other machine I've >installed the windows version of octave on has behaved like this one, but >this is the one I've got for my desktop machine in my office, so I'd really >like it to run normally. > Your other machines are not running windows 9x. > BTW, this laptop is running Windows 98, if that >matters. > It does. Fork works very poorly for me in Windows ME. Yes it freezes the mouse on startup, and whenever I start a separate application, such as texinfo or less or gnuplot. It's worse if you compile with --enable-shared because then it gives you a scary sounding but harmless error box that you have to click away for _every_ loaded oct-file. I tried to make a more minimal example by extracting just the src/system.c file from octave and compiling its builtin test function, but it doesn't produce such bad behaviour as octave. It's also not 7 megabytes either, which might have something to do with it. Paul Kienzle pkienzle at users dot sf dot net ------------------------------------------------------------- Octave is freely available under the terms of the GNU GPL. Octave's home on the web: http://www.octave.org How to fund new projects: http://www.octave.org/funding.html Subscription information: http://www.octave.org/archive.html -------------------------------------------------------------