Subject: Maxima stats huge numbers of files at startup?
From: Harald Geyer
Date: Fri, 11 Dec 2009 01:47:23 +0100
> 1. "maxima opens the root directory / and stats each file found there.
> Then it does the same thing for the /u (home) directory.
I can't confirm this. Must depend on the settings used by the
installation.
However I can confirm that maxima stats each file below
maxima/5.19.2/share/ recursively ...
I can imagine that this causes problems on slow filesystems.
I guess this behaviour is caused by the patch that allows maxima
to construct it's search path for share-packages at runtime.
Not sure what would be a solution that caters for everyone...
HTH,
Harald