Date: Sat, 01 Feb 2003 01:37:42 -0500 (Eastern Standard Time)
From: C Y <smustudent1 at yahoo>
Subject: Re: [Maxima] Install on Windows
Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2003 20:03:04 -0800 (PST)
Message-ID: <20030201040304.18018.qmail@web12206.mail.yahoo.com>
> > > 3) The startup time was extremely long, on the order of 30-40
> > > seconds. I know this is a known problem but I'm almost postitive
> it
> > > will be the number one bug report filed by people who try out 5.9.0
>
> > > on Windows and will likely be a killer for some. I don't propose
> > > holding up the release, which is after all a developer release, but
>
> > > we should probably be ready for the reports this will generate.
> Has
> > > anyone figured out what might be causing it? The most promising
> > > thing I recall was a report that smaller hard disks didn't have as
> > > long a wait, but 5.5beta doesn't seem to have that problem.
> Anyway,
> > > thought I'd mention it.
> >
> > Again, I haven't seen this on any machine I've tried. Was this issue
> > discussed on the list at some point? Do you have any idea what the
> > problem could be?
>
> It was discussed, but I can't remember where the thread is. Anyone
> remember it? I don't have any useful ideas as to what to do about it.
> This one did occur on both Win 98 computers I tried it on.
I'm noticing this too - I've even increased the timeout in xmaxima
waiting for maxima to start. It's taking over 60 seconds on an AMD 300
with 64M under Windows 98. 5.5 comes uup in 12 sec on the same machine.
Has anyone compared the memory usage between maxima 5.5 and 5.9?
maxima.exe executable has gone from 8M to 12M and the virtual memory
(using wintop.exe) has gone from 12 to 17M. Has the virtual memory
behaviour changed (data resident)?
Mike.