From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: From: "Russ Cox" To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] Long delay in processing under acme In-Reply-To: <8a0f2656fdd2eaadb5a71869827605bf@centurytel.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2003 16:14:24 -0500 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 4a8abba0-eacb-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 Usually the |fmt delay (I only see a few seconds sometimes, never 20-30) means that the directory containing the window's file is slow. Acme runs the command in the directory named in the window tag, and the first thing that happens is that directory is searched for a binary called "fmt". If that directory is slow to respond, the exec will be slow to happen. It happens in a separate proc, so life goes on in the acme window. Typically this happens to me when I'm editing mail messages, because I use upas/fs with pop3, and while it's talking to the pop3 server it doesn't answer file system requests. Russ