Re: Strange delays on G5

On Sat, Aug 15, 2026 at 08:46:34AM -0400, Michael wrote:
> - shell startup takes several seconds on a 2GHz 970MP while on an
>   800MHz G4 it's more or less instant.

I can't reproduce that, maybe it depends on something in your .shrc ?

[~] martin@big-apple > /usr/bin/time sh -c exit
        0.00 real         0.00 user         0.00 sys
[~] martin@big-apple > /usr/bin/time sh -l -c exit
        0.00 real         0.00 user         0.00 sys

This is on a

mainbus0 (root): PowerMac7,3
cpu0 at mainbus0: 970FX (rev 3.0), ID 0 (primary)


Martin