Re: emacs trying to load too many files at startup

[Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>]

> From: Dan Nicolaescu <dann@ics.uci.edu>
> Date: Sat, 19 Nov 2005 10:31:16 -0800
> 
> 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. 
> 
> This is seen by looking at stat system calls like:
> stat64("/home/dann/packages/emacs-CVS/share/emacs/22.0.50/site-lisp/replace.elc", 0xbf8c767c)
> 
> Other files loaded: abbrev, textmodes/fill, emacs-lisp/lisp-mode, etc, etc
> 
> There are about 2400 stat syscalls during the startup. 
> emacs-21.4 does about 230 stat64 syscalls... 
> 
> When running from the local disk this is unlikely to cause a problem,
> but it might be a problem when using a slow NFS server...
> 
> Does anyone know what is going on? 

The easiest and the most accurate way of answering that is to put a
breakpoint in stat64, and then do a bt each time the breakpoint
triggers.