From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 4326 invoked by alias); 26 Jan 2003 07:48:34 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 4319 invoked from network); 26 Jan 2003 07:48:34 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mx1.redhat.com) (172.16.49.200) by 172.16.49.205 with SMTP; 26 Jan 2003 07:48:34 -0000 Received: from int-mx1.corp.redhat.com (int-mx1.corp.redhat.com [172.16.52.254]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id h0Q7JRf05000 for ; Sun, 26 Jan 2003 02:19:27 -0500 Received: from pobox.corp.redhat.com (pobox.corp.redhat.com [172.16.52.156]) by int-mx1.corp.redhat.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id h0Q7mXa11533; Sun, 26 Jan 2003 02:48:33 -0500 Received: from dragon (romulus-int.sfbay.redhat.com [172.16.27.46]) by pobox.corp.redhat.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id h0Q7mXt13257; Sun, 26 Jan 2003 02:48:33 -0500 Subject: Re: very very slow symbol searches From: "Martin M. Hunt" To: David Carlton Cc: gdb@sources.redhat.com, Elena Zannoni In-Reply-To: References: <1043236817.32119.7.camel@Dragon> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Sun, 26 Jan 2003 07:48:00 -0000 Message-Id: <1043567479.8898.4.camel@Dragon> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-SW-Source: 2003-01/txt/msg00417.txt.bz2 > Could you give some commands to reproduce this problem? (Preferably > using GDB to debug itself.) I tried running GDB on itself and then > typing 'info functions', and I don't see any significant time > difference on current mainline GDB versus GDB 5.2 or 5.3. Interesting. Maybe the problem is limited to certain glibcs? > ./gdb gdb > info func main* 01Jan03 build: less than 1 second pause before output. Current build: about 10 seconds pause This is on a standard RH8.0 Linux system, glibc-2.2.93-5 Martin