Is this slowness normal?

[D. R. Evans]

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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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