From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Dan Nicolaescu Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: emacs trying to load too many files at startup Date: Sat, 19 Nov 2005 12:19:58 -0800 Message-ID: <200511192020.jAJKK1Tp000805@scanner2.ics.uci.edu> References: <200511191831.jAJIVJTp026147@scanner2.ics.uci.edu> <200511192016.jAJKG6215745@raven.dms.auburn.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1132431854 18923 80.91.229.2 (19 Nov 2005 20:24:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 19 Nov 2005 20:24:14 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Nov 19 21:24:14 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EdZFc-0003Qp-VZ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 19 Nov 2005 21:23:57 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EdZFc-0002mX-BJ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 19 Nov 2005 15:23:56 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1EdZFT-0002mO-MQ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 19 Nov 2005 15:23:47 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1EdZFT-0002mC-4y for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 19 Nov 2005 15:23:47 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EdZFR-0002m6-O3 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 19 Nov 2005 15:23:47 -0500 Original-Received: from [128.195.1.36] (helo=scanner2.ics.uci.edu) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1EdZFR-000241-ML for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 19 Nov 2005 15:23:45 -0500 Original-Received: from vino.ics.uci.edu (dann@vino.ics.uci.edu [128.195.11.198]) by scanner2.ics.uci.edu (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id jAJKK1Tp000805; Sat, 19 Nov 2005 12:20:01 -0800 (PST) Original-To: Luc Teirlinck In-Reply-To: <200511192016.jAJKG6215745@raven.dms.auburn.edu> (Luc Teirlinck's message of "Sat, 19 Nov 2005 14:16:06 -0600 (CST)") Original-Lines: 13 X-ICS-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-ICS-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam (whitelisted), SpamAssassin (score=-100, required 5, USER_IN_WHITELIST) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:46281 Archived-At: Luc Teirlinck writes: > Dan Nicolaescu wrote: > > The /tmp/emacs.strace file shows that emacs is trying to load at > startup a lot of files that are dumped anyway so there should be no > reason to load them at startups. > > Do you really mean that Emacs is trying to load (execute the Lisp > expressions in) the file or that it is just trying to open those files? At first I thought it is trying to load the files, but it seems that it is just trying to stat the files.