Upgrade Gotchas? (Especially FreeBSD)

[Andrew Sackville-West]

On Sat, Jan 12, 2008 at 06:55:08PM -0500, Donald Allen wrote:
> On Jan 12, 2008 6:32 PM, Tuc at T-B-O-H.NET <ml at t-b-o-h.net> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> >         I'm still running 1.8, and will begin inputting
> > the next year only on 2.2.X . I remember an issue with
> > ONE of the libraries that if you went past a certain
> > version, instead of taking 10 seconds to start up, it
> > took over a minute. (Something like g-wrap or slib or
> > guile or something like that).
> >
> >         Does that still hold?  Are there any
> > (others) for this release?
> 
> I've been running 2.0.5 for quite some time on a 2 Ghz Core 2 Duo
> laptop and startup takes on the order of 10 seconds (Gentoo Linux,
> Fluxbox window manager). And I've got *years* of data -- 19 Mb
> uncompressed. The only performance problem is the reports, which have
> been discussed at length recently.

There was a specific issue in one of the BSD's where it would
literally take minutes to start up. I don't know if it's been fixed
yet. 

A
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