[comp.sys.encore] Slow disk I/O on emacs-18.55

cheever@sumax.seattleu.edu (Richard L. Cheever) (01/18/91)

I compiled and installed the new version of emacs on our Multimax 510
and at first I thought all was okay, but now I notice that disk I/O
(i.e. ^X^F find-file) and system interface (i.e. ESC! shell command) take
TWENTY SECONDS to complete. However startup and (^Xi insert-file) work fine.

I checked resource utilization and didn't observe anything unusual like
high CPU %.  Before the upgrade we were running 18.51 .

Specifics:  Umax 4.3 R0.0.0
            4 CPU's running XPC's w/48MB RAM 1.2 GB disk with 2 large
              swap partitions
            tried both gcc and cc with GNU's make

Config.h selects s-umax.h and m-ns16000.h
s-umax.h selects #define BSD4_2
		 #define BSD
		 #define UMAX
		 #define UMAX4_2

		 #define NO_REMAP      \
		 #define TEXT_START 0  /  Won't run without these.


Any ideas would be appreciated.

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