slow process forking

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From: sasdjb
Date: Fri, 31 May 1991 21:34

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I'm running Epoch 3.2.101 of Wed Jul 18 1990 on warlock (Domain/OS)
on an HPollo 400t with 16M running X11R3 (non shared).  Epoch runs fine,
except when I do something which creats a process in Epoch, such as
compile, rmail get, mail send mail, create a shell.  These things take
soooooo very long to start up... much longer than Emacs taks.   It may
take as long a 45 seconds for a compile to just start executing, or for
RMAIL to fetch a single mail message from /usr/spool/mail... and Epoch
is not usable during this delay.  The longer my Epoch session has been
around, the longer it takes to fork.  Is Epoch doing a true fork instead
of a vfork? (does Emacs, for that matter?)  Could our Epoch be built
incorrectly?

Has anyone seen such a problem and know of a fix? 

djb

David J. Biesack			SAS Institute, Inc.     
Object Programming Technology           SAS Campus Drive        
sasdjb@dev.sas.com                      Cary, NC 27513-2414     
mcnc!sas!sasdjb                         (919) 677-8000 ext. 7771

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