Re: Multi-Minute Startup?

["Benjamin R. Haskell" <zsh@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 7 Aug 2008, Aaron Davies wrote:

> It takes zsh multiple minutes (around 3) to start up on a new server I 
> just got access to. I have no custom .z* files at this point, so all 
> that's running should be the /etc files, of which only /etc/zshenv and 
> /etc/zshrc are actually present. Any ideas what's likely to be slowing 
> me down so much?

What O/S and architecture? (Not sure if it's relevant, but maybe Zsh 
doesn't run so fast on a 286.)

Try running zsh -x -l
-l makes it a login shell
-x is to trace commands as they're executed

Maybe that will reveal a particular command that's taking a long time to 
execute.

Best,
Ben