From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 17720 invoked by alias); 22 Apr 2009 17:35:19 -0000 Received: (qmail 17708 invoked by uid 22791); 22 Apr 2009 17:35:18 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.5 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from smtp-outbound-2.vmware.com (HELO smtp-outbound-2.vmware.com) (65.115.85.73) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Wed, 22 Apr 2009 17:35:07 +0000 Received: from jupiter.vmware.com (mailhost5.vmware.com [10.16.68.131]) by smtp-outbound-2.vmware.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id DD34A28009; Wed, 22 Apr 2009 10:35:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [10.20.94.141] (msnyder-server.eng.vmware.com [10.20.94.141]) by jupiter.vmware.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id CCC8BDC3EF; Wed, 22 Apr 2009 10:35:03 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <49EF53D9.9050209@vmware.com> Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2009 17:39:00 -0000 From: Michael Snyder User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.12 (X11/20080411) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Nick Savoiu CC: "gdb@sourceware.org" Subject: Re: GDB using a lot of CPU time and writing a lot to disk on startup References: <592922.54823.qm@web52001.mail.re2.yahoo.com> <8ac60eac0904201639r19f7d539v2b301fcb24e82317@mail.gmail.com> <20090420234805.GA28850@caradoc.them.org> <8ac60eac0904201654h1775560se59718b127ccbfad@mail.gmail.com> <742711.93110.qm@web52008.mail.re2.yahoo.com> <200904211551.n3LFphaO009791@brahms.sibelius.xs4all.nl> <808758.98762.qm@web52004.mail.re2.yahoo.com> <83ljpthlq2.fsf@gnu.org> <702D3FCE-02F7-4C70-AC67-3C7C62CDEBD0@elis.ugent.be> <588223.49333.qm@web52003.mail.re2.yahoo.com> <923173.50385.qm@web52006.mail.re2.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <923173.50385.qm@web52006.mail.re2.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2009-04/txt/msg00183.txt.bz2 Nick Savoiu wrote: > Forgot to mention, the 'swap used' does not change during this time so it's highly unlikely that swapping is the issue. Given the write rate even if swapping was happening it should not take more than a few seconds. Forgive me if this has already been asked, but... is there any chance that you have a stray .gdbinit file with some odd command in it, such as "maint print symbols"?