Re: GDB using a lot of CPU time and writing a lot to disk on startup

Michael Snyder
2009-04-22T17:35:19Z

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"?