Re: Slow debugger loading in Xcode 3.1.3
Re: Slow debugger loading in Xcode 3.1.3
- Subject: Re: Slow debugger loading in Xcode 3.1.3
- From: Jason Westlake <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 1 Mar 2010 23:49:32 -0500
Hi Jim,
I'll take a look at that and see if it's the problem. Thanks!
Jason
On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 3:36 PM, Jim Ingham <email@hidden> wrote:
> On Mac OS X, gdb has a mechanism to locate the separate debug files (dSYM's) using various agents, including SpotLight. It may be that this is hanging up for some reason. To test this, you can disable this search in gdb by putting:
>
> set locate-dsym 0
>
> in the file ~/.gdbinit on one of your test accounts, and then retrying the Xcode debugger. If that makes the slowdown go away, then the SpotLight search is the problem, and you will need to figure out why a fairly simple SpotLight search takes so long.
>
> Jim
>
> On Mar 1, 2010, at 12:18 PM, Jason Westlake wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Our CS department head has brought a weird problem to our attention.
>> When students are building even the simplest of C++ programs, add a
>> breakpoint and run with the debugger and console open, it will take
>> over 1m 30s for the program to initialize gdb and get to the
>> breakpoint. Of note, local accounts seem to load gdb after only a
>> second or two. This interrupts the flow of class and is a pain to
>> deal with.
>>
>> Our machines are iMacs, 2GHz Core 2 Duo w/ 2 GB RAM, bound to our
>> 10.6.2 Open Directory master. The students are logged in with their
>> OD accounts and have home folders on the server. We're running
>> 10.5.8, Xcode 3.1.3.
>>
>> Why would it take so long for the program to initialize when using a
>> network account? The test program I'm using is literally declare and
>> initialize 2 ints and add them, but it takes seemingly forever to
>> build and run. Does anyone have any ideas?
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> Jason
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