Re: Octave suddenly slow

[Michael Goffioul]

Sometimes, this kind of problem is triggered by having a large
number of m-files in the current directory. But it does not look
to be the case for you.

Michael.


On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 11:18 PM, Scott A. McDermott
<address@hidden> 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.
>
> I've tried uninstalling and re-installing; I've tried going to version
> 3.1.50; I've tried running Octave (version 3.0.2) under Cygwin instead
> of the stand-alone binary.  Same behavior all around.
>
> So now the interesting question: What changed in that two weeks?
>
> I've installed the following apps:
>
> - Cygwin with X support
> - Gimp
> - NetBeans 6.1
>
> Note that I only downloaded the Cygwin version of Octave today, trying
> to work around this problem.  I'm happy to uninstall any of these apps
> but my fear is that the problem is a "newer, better" .dll that came with
> one of these apps that won't be eliminated.
>
> My biggest concern (in addition to suddenly not being able to do my
> work) is that I don't even know what to look at to diagnose this any
> more.  Any help at all would be deeply appreciated, and I'll of course
> try to return the favor to the Octave community when I can!
>
> Thanks ---
> --Scott
>
>
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