Re: SLOW initialisation on SunOS

Juergen Schoenwaelder (schoenw@cs.utwente.nl)
Fri, 19 Jul 1996 13:28:27 +0200

Keith Dart <kdart@INS.COM> wrote:

> I've finally got around to installing the tnm/tkined. This one is on a
> Sparc station running SunOS 4.1.4. I got around the PIC problem by
> installing resolv+, and did the TCLLIBPATH thing. Everythings works, sort
> of. The only problem I have is that whenever I start a scotty script
> (including tkined tools) there is a long pause between the script
> invokation and when it actually starts to run. Simple scripts, even no
> script (invoking an interactive scotty), will not run until about a minute
> has passed, then it runs OK.

Looks like a DNS timeout during initialization. Check if you have some
commands in you .scottyrc or in your site specific initialization file
that does trigger a DNS lookup. Or simply run strace(1) to see what is
happening during startup.
Juergen