Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (581 mails)

[Josef Reidinger <jreidinger@xxxxxxx>]

Anicka Bernathova wrote:
> Hello!
>
> Yesterday I have found out that from time to time, when I type a typo, it 
> takes
> a huge amount of time until a "command of found message" appears and I can
> continue my work. 
>
> Now I am able to reproduce it every time on my rc1 machine:
>
> > time sl
> bash: sl: command not found
>
> real    0m1.289s
> user    0m0.228s
> sys     0m0.040s
>
> Typing "echo 1 >/proc/sys/vm/drop_caches" enables me to reproduce it every 
> time
> (not doing it means that it happens at random).
>
> I am quite sure that our command-not-found package is to blame. I do not know
> how come it is that slow (I have only some five repositories defined) but it
> kind of drives me mad.
>
> So first - could you tell me a way to disable this functionality? (Commenting
> out the last line in /etc/bash_command_not_found does not seem to help.) And
> then, are there any known issues like that? I would like to see this problem
> fixed but I am afraid we might find out that we simply cannot do any better
> with Python.
>
> If our users like it, we should probably rewrite it to C then :-(
>
> Anicka

You can try profile that
script(http://www.python.org/doc/2.5.2/lib/profile-instant.html) and
find what slow down it. I can say, that this script doesn't slow down my
console.
JR
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