Re: Octave very slow accessing disk

[Philip Nienhuis]

zos474 wrote
> 
> Hi Philip,
> 
> Thanks for taking the time to reply and no problem for the shouting :)  I
> did not know about the no-spaces (& think that was the default directory
> in the installer.)  In any case, I uninstalled Octave and reinstalled it
> instead into C:\Octave (so now directories are C:\Octave\bin,
> C:\Octave\doc, etc.)  And unfortunately no change in behavior - still just
> as slow.
> 
> If you happen to have any other ideas I would really appreciate it.
> 

(Sorry for late reply.)

It looks like something else on your system is wrong.

I suggested to install in a subdir w/o spaces as I had the same experience
as you (slow response etc) which turned out to have been caused by
installing in C:\Program Files (and I'm not a novice Octave user - everyone
makes mistakes now and then).


Well.... I do have a suggestion: try one of the MSVC Octave installers from
Octave-Forge:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/octave/files/Octave Windows binaries/Octave
3.6.1 for Windows Microsoft Visual Studio/

(watch out for line wrap)
at least it starts up a lot faster than the MinGW version. It has no
compiler included, though.
If that version is also as slow as you suggest, I look for other issues in
your Win7 setup.

Philip

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