Re: Octave suddenly slow

[Bill Denney]

Scott A. McDermott wrote:
> Hello list ---
>
> Sorry for my first post here to be a problem instead of something
> helpful, but I'm awful stuck...
>
> I'd been using the Octave Windows binary merrily for over a year, most
> recently (in July) downloading 3.0.1 to a freshly-wiped hard drive.
> Last time I used it was about two weeks ago, again everything fine.
>
> Today I ran it again and it runs insaaaaaaanely slowly.  What it looks
> like is, each line I run --- anything at all, as simple as "cd .." or
> "version" or "for x=1:100,x,end" --- pops the CPU usage to 100% for ~3
> seconds, and then actually executes.  As you can imagine, actually
> running a .m file now takes several minutes where it had been a few seconds.

Hi Scott,

Are other things running slowly?  If so, my first guess would be a hard
drive problem.

Have a good day,

Bill