Is this slowness normal?

[Andreas Mohr Usenet 10/01]

D. R. Evans <N7DR at arrl.net> wrote:
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> On 23 Nov 2001 at 11:03, Andreas Mohr Usenet 10/01 wrote:

>> > :Incidentally, while I'm waiting for SOL.EXE to actually start, my CPU is
>> > :sitting at 0%, so I don't know what wine is doing.
>> 
>> > I just typed wine sol.exe from my home directory, and the cards were on
>> > the screen in about two seconds, so your case is certainly NOT normal.
>> 
>> OK, now that about 6 or 7 people have been wading through darkness,
>> let me enlighten you ;-)
>> 
>> Most probably it's a *huge* registry file (probably imported from Windows,
>> that's why).
>> 
>> Use wineserver -p to work around it.
>> 

> Unfortunately, this doesn't seem to make any noticeable difference :-(

> (I let "wineserver -p" run for about finve minutes before trying to run 
> SOL.EXE; I also checked that it was running with "ps".)

Yeah. And *then* run it *again*.

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