Intermittant slow startup

[Michael Mossey]

Andrew MacIntyre <andymac at bullseye.apana.org.au> wrote in message news:<mailman.452.1081430037.20120.python-list at python.org>...
> On Thu, 7 Apr 2004, Michael Mossey wrote:
> 
> > 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.
> 
> All I can think of is to try using "python -v" and see where in the
> startup process the delay appears to be occurring.  If the same module is
> involved in every stumble, then at least you have a module to investigate.

python -v reveals that the hang is coming before it prints anything.  So
what is python doing then?  Or is the OS having a problem in loading the
python executable and getting it going?  This doesn't seem to happen with
other utilities installed in /usr/local/bin.

-Mike