Chris,
check the /var/log/messages logs. We battled the same problems and
finally discovered that the binary coot executables contained rpath
entries to Paul's home directory (/home/emsley/...). Our automounter
tried to find that non-existing mount-point several times during a load
and needed to timeout for each occasion. I use 'patchelf' to get rid of
all unused rpaths entries and the load times are in the order of a
couple of seconds instead of 30secs+. If that is your problem, you can
contact me off-list and I can send you a script to delete the pesky
rpath entries.
Cheers
Carsten
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[mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Chris Richardson
Sent: Wednesday, October 12, 2011 9:39 AM
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Subject: [COOT] Coot startup times
We have a small but interesting problem with coot startup times.
The first time a user starts coot, it will take around a minute to start
up. On subsequent occasions, it will take around 30 seconds. However,
if that user runs coot once with "sudo coot" all subsequent invocations
will only take around 3 seconds to start up on that machine.
Am I right in assuming that invoking coot with root privileges allows it
to write some files somewhere that are used on subsequent runs? Could I
change the permissions of the appropriate directory to allow fast
startup without giving my users sudo access? Should I just tell the
users to be more patient?
Platform information: a variety of macs running OS X 10.6.8. Coot
0.7-pre (also 0.6 in the past) installed using fink. All accounts are
network accounts with a network home directory mounted using AFP. We
hot desk, so speeding up coot for all users on all machines using sudo
would be a horrible task.
Regards,
Chris
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