[geeks] Hmmm.. food for thought...

[Simeon Johnston]

> But if I *quit* it, then start it up, it takes five seconds.  That's
> unacceptable for something that damned well should be in memory already.

hmmm...  3sec every time.  3sec no matter what on a Pizmo.

> That's on a G4-450.

What's wrong w/ your machine. :-)

> For comparison, my x86 box (P3-600) takes well under a second to launch
> an xterm when that is also already in memory, and running X on X, the
> G4-450 can start an xterm in about a second.

And why would it want to keep the terminal.app in memory?
If you use it that much you keep it open.  If not what is 3sec?

sim