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Re: Octave suddenly slow
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Bill Denney |
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Re: Octave suddenly slow |
Date: |
Tue, 11 Nov 2008 21:15:31 -0500 |
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Scott A. McDermott wrote:
> Hello list ---
>
> Sorry for my first post here to be a problem instead of something
> helpful, but I'm awful stuck...
>
> I'd been using the Octave Windows binary merrily for over a year, most
> recently (in July) downloading 3.0.1 to a freshly-wiped hard drive.
> Last time I used it was about two weeks ago, again everything fine.
>
> Today I ran it again and it runs insaaaaaaanely slowly. What it looks
> like is, each line I run --- anything at all, as simple as "cd .." or
> "version" or "for x=1:100,x,end" --- pops the CPU usage to 100% for ~3
> seconds, and then actually executes. As you can imagine, actually
> running a .m file now takes several minutes where it had been a few seconds.
Hi Scott,
Are other things running slowly? If so, my first guess would be a hard
drive problem.
Have a good day,
Bill