From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 24564 invoked by alias); 1 Nov 2002 15:17:04 -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 24528 invoked from network); 1 Nov 2002 15:17:03 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO crack.them.org) (65.125.64.184) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 1 Nov 2002 15:17:03 -0000 Received: from nevyn.them.org ([66.93.61.169] ident=mail) by crack.them.org with asmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 187eTC-0003cP-00; Fri, 01 Nov 2002 10:16:26 -0600 Received: from drow by nevyn.them.org with local (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 187dYM-0001BN-00; Fri, 01 Nov 2002 10:17:42 -0500 Date: Fri, 01 Nov 2002 07:17:00 -0000 From: Daniel Jacobowitz To: wim delvaux Cc: Andrew Cagney , gdb@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: why is gdb 5.2 so slow Message-ID: <20021101151742.GB3924@nevyn.them.org> Mail-Followup-To: wim delvaux , Andrew Cagney , gdb@sources.redhat.com References: <20021101013219.QDL1261.amsfep12-int.chello.nl@there> <20021101133135.LDS1274.amsfep14-int.chello.nl@there> <3DC2967B.8050603@redhat.com> <20021101151511.QPTX1218.amsfep11-int.chello.nl@there> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20021101151511.QPTX1218.amsfep11-int.chello.nl@there> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i X-SW-Source: 2002-11/txt/msg00005.txt.bz2 On Fri, Nov 01, 2002 at 04:15:17PM +0100, wim delvaux wrote: > > > Can you file a bug? http://sources.redhat.com/gdb/bugs/ Yes, that > > would quickly become frustrating. > > Done ... example attached > > > > > A workaround is to add `set height 0' to your .gdbinit file. > > Will try that, thanx. Indeed the number of prompts is related to > the window size. > > > > > I think you won the lottery in finding GDB's current known worst case :-) > > If I look at your explanation i think indeed I have the EXTREME situation > here. I can easily have about 10 threads and about 60 dynamically loaded > libraries and as said my PC is NOT the most powerfull ;-( > > Thanx again for the reply Knew I forgot to suggest something. If you don't need watchpoint support, please try running your program under gdbserver instead of directly in GDB. It should be buckets faster. -- Daniel Jacobowitz MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer