Seldom delay while compiling.

[Elias Montoya]

Hello Paul, i just changed PC (not mine but im using it),
it is an i7 860, well description is below, and firefly is pretty
fast in it, but sometimes when compiling it hangs for about
60 seconds... It usually compiles my program in a fraction of
a second but sometimes (about 1 time of every 30) it just
hangs there for about a minute.

Results are OK and everything is fine, no crashes or anything,
just the delay.

Any ideas?

[Paul Squires]

Sounds like a virus scanner or something similar is kicking in? FireFly does the exact same thing everytime it compiles, so if the first 30 compiles were fast then there is no reason that the next 30 compiles would be just as fast as well.

[Roger Garstang]

I had weird delays like that on a PC at my work.  Thought it was certain apps then I noticed it just happened every so many minutes for no reason.  I thought the same thing and uninstalled AV and Firewall for a couple days and still saw the weird hanging.  I even noticed sometimes it did it before logging on or during logging on, etc.  What was really weird is it would hang but mouse and such still worked, just all apps didn't respond 100%.  If I maxed out Vista Eye Candy it would even Blue Screen sometimes giving errors that when looked up people said were memory/motherboard or hard drive.  Tested all and nothing came back wrong.  I ended up "Upgrading" to Win XP 64bit...now the PC flies and no issues all week.  Stupid Vista...

[Paul Squires]

Elias - if you are running FF3 from a portable hard drive (like I do) then maybe the delay is caused by the hard drive starting to "wake up" and start spinning again before the compile kicks in.

[Mark Strickland]

Try this to locate the problem.

Open up Task Manager (right click on the Start Bar).
Click the PROCESSES tab.
Click the CPU heading twice so the process with the highest CPU use is sorted to the top.
Compile your program and the process using the most CPU will show on the top of the Task Manager list.

If the problem is not CPU related and it is some sort of network or other timeout problem this won't help.