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gdb seems to be taking an inordinate amount of time to load
symbols for c++ programs.

I am debugging an InterViews program with executable code size of
3244205 bytes.  I start gdb and type:
list View::HandleIO.

view.cc contains the source code for HandleIO and its size is 2329 bytes.

After I type the list command, gdb responds with:
Reading in symbols for limsgs.cc...done.
Reading in symbols for view.cc...done.

(size of limsgs.cc is 3312 bytes)  While these messages are being 
displayed, the machine scrubs the disk furiously.  I am assuming
that some of that is swapping as I only have 8Megs of RAM.  Anyway,
it sounds as if I have run a "du /" or "find / -print".

It seems to be a HUGE amount of I/O to load the symbols for two
files whose combined source is less than 10K.  

During this time my machine is fully occupied with loading those
symbols (my X windows won't even update as I move the mouse from
one to the other) and it takes it about a minute.  This is a freaking
sparcstation!  What am I doing wrong?  Did I not tell gdb enough
about where to find the source files?  Is it searching my entire
directory structure to find them?

My .gdbinit contains the following:
directory ~/src/iv/SUN4
directory ~/src/lg/SUN4
directory /net/gnu/libg++/src
directory /net/gnu/libg++/g++-include

Any ideas?

Steve Madere