Re: registerRecordDeviceDriver.pl takes a long time to finish

["Johnson, Andrew N." <anj@aps.anl.gov>]

Hi Hinko,

On Sep 27, 2017, at 5:15 AM, Hinko Kocevar <hinkocevar@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Under 3.15.4 perl script execution takes a lot of time on Linux Mint, while it executes in a jiffy on CentOS.
> I added a time in front of the perl call in RULES.db:
> 
> 
> time perl -CSD /devel/root/R3.15.4/base/bin/linux-x86_64/registerRecordDeviceDriver.pl   -I. -I.. -I../O.Common -I../../../dbd -I/devel/root/R3.15.4/modules/adcore-master/dbd -I/devel/root/R3.15.4/modules/adsimdetector-master/dbd -I/devel/root/R3.15.4/modules/asyn-master/dbd -I/devel/root/R3.15.4/modules/autosave-master/dbd -I/devel/root/R3.15.4/modules/busy-master/dbd -I/devel/root/R3.15.4/modules/calc-master/dbd -I/devel/root/R3.15.4/modules/sscan-master/dbd -I/devel/root/R3.15.4/base/dbd    -o simDetectorApp_registerRecordDeviceDriver.cpp ../O.Common/simDetectorApp.dbd simDetectorApp_registerRecordDeviceDriver /devel/stage/R3.15.4/iocs/simdetectorioc-master
> 
> 
> 29.95user 0.02system 0:29.98elapsed 99%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 19256maxresident)k
> 
> 
> I think other calls to perl are awfully slow, too..
> Any idea why it might be so slow?

This sounds more like a problem with your Linux Mint system configuration than with the EPICS scripts, I run Linux Mint on my personal laptop at home and don’t see these kinds of issues.

I wonder if this may be related to different Locale settings. Is this slow:
    time perl -CSD -e 'print "Hello\n"'

If yes, please try this
    time perl -e ‘print "Hello\n"'
and then this
    time perl -CSDL -e 'print "Hello\n"'
and this
    time perl -C -e 'print "Hello\n"'
to see if the flags make any difference. What is your locale set to (echo $LANG) and maybe try changing it to see if that has any effect.

Please report any interesting findings back here...

HTH,

- Andrew