Is this slowness normal?
D. R. Evans
N7DR at arrl.net
Thu Nov 22 17:16:30 CST 2001
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On 22 Nov 2001 at 21:28, Matt Ng wrote:
> > If I run the (in)famous SOL.EXE, it takes 53 seconds before the program
> > appears on the desktop. All the other programs I've tried seem to take at
> > least this long (and sometimes several minutes) before they appear.
>
> I'd say there's something wrong with your configuration. Maybe your
> system has a misconfigured video card? I have a P233 (running Afterstep),
> and it takes about 4-5 seconds for solitaire to load.
I haven't seen any other indication of a misconfigured video card. I have
been running mandrake 7.2 for many months without any indication whatsoever
of a misconfiguration. So I don't think that that can be the problem.
I did some more timing tests. It turns out that the wait time is highly
variable. 53 seconds is the fastest so far. The slowest was one that I
stopped timing after three minutes, at which point the solitaire screen had
still not appeared.
I do see the following error every time that I try to invoke SOL.EXE:
err:ntdll:RtlpWaitForCriticalSection Critical Section 0x400f396c wait timed
out, retrying (60 sec) fs=008f
Sometimes this error appears almost instantly, sometimes it is several tens
of seconds before it appears.
Doc Evans
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