Subject: Maxima stats huge numbers of files at startup?
From: Raymond Toy
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2009 07:41:44 -0500
William Stein wrote:
> Hi,
>
> This email is a followup about "1. maxima opens the root directory /
> and stats each file found there. Then it does the same thing for the
> /u (home) directory..."
>
This is not right. Maxima should not be stat'ing from /, but only from
maxima-sharedir.
> Thanks to everybody that responded to my query below. The
> "MAXIMA-SHAREDIR" variable looks fine according to the output of
> "maxima --directories".
>
Can you provide additional information like what Lisp is being used?
Then we can investigate why share-subdirs-list is not doing what it's
supposed to do.
I run maxima across NFS, and I haven't noticed any slowdown (except that
it takes a while to load up the maxima binary across the network).
Ray