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Re: gdb performance is impossible!!
Jake Colman wrote:
> JB> What operation, specifically, is slow?
>
> Everything! Startup is excruiatingly slow. After that, it can take over 30
> seconds for it to acknowledge breakpoint settings commands. Displaying of
> variables is sloooow. Nothing at all is reasonably responsive. I should
> tell you that my system is a reasonably configured SPARC Ultra 10.
Well, this sounds like swapping behavior. I suspect that
the symbol table has simply grown too large to reside entirely
in memory. I predict that if you add more memory you will
immediately see a factor of N improvement where N is an
integer greater than ten.