Intermittant slow startup

[Michael Mossey]

Andrew MacIntyre <andymac at bullseye.apana.org.au> wrote in message news:<mailman.391.1081257204.20120.python-list at python.org>...
> On Tue, 5 Apr 2004, Michael Mossey wrote:
> 
> > Erik Max Francis <max at alcyone.com> wrote in message news:<4071A86D.97CA6CAE at alcyone.com>...
> > > Michael Mossey wrote:
> > >
> > > > Runnng python 2.2 on HP-UX, I get intermittant slow startup.
> > > > Sometimes python starts up in a small fraction of a second, and
> > > > sometimes takes 3-5 seconds.  This applies to any script I run, or
> > > > just typing 'python' at the prompt.
> > > >
> > > > I also observed something similar on Linux.
> > > >
> > > > Any ideas what would cause *intermittant* slow startup?
> > >
> > > Caching?  Is it a long time between invocations that it takes a long
> > > time to start up?
> >
> > It is quite intermittant without much of a pattern I can see.  One
> > thing that is definitely true is that if I start up python several
> > times in a row one right after the other, some can be slow and some
> > fast.  I just observed it start fast twice, then start slow.  I don't
> > remember if it ever does the other way around but I think it does.
> 
> is any resource coming from an NFS mount? or other network source?

I double-checked that and asked the sysadmin to check if the python
build was using any network source.  I do have AFS and NFS drives
mounted on this machine, but I'm not reading any python code from them
as nearly as I can tell.  PYTHONPATH points only to local disk.

-Mike