Quitting jshell extremely slow on my Mac

[Robert Field]

Sorry, I meant to write --

      Seems likely your *preferences* file is very large or *compromised*.

Where it is stored is OS dependent.  This may be of help:

https://victor.kropp.name/blog/java-preferences-api/

-Robert

On 2020-01-08 18:12, Weijun Wang wrote:
> Where is the properties file?
>
> Thanks,
> Max
>
>> On Jan 9, 2020, at 10:09 AM, Robert Field <robert.field at oracle.com> wrote:
>>
>> Max,
>> Seems likely your properties file is very large or computerised.
>> Robert
>>
>>
>> On January 7, 2020 6:23:15 PM Weijun Wang <weijun.wang at oracle.com> wrote:
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>>> Oops, I just fixed this.
>>>
>>> First I was thinking about whether there is something in my $HOME that made jshell slow, so I "export HOME=/tmp/x" and run jshell, it terminates immediately. Then I set it back, the same. Then I opened another terminal windows, still fast. I even restart the system, still fast. I almost feel the command launches a little faster.
>>>
>>> Nothing was left in /tmp/xxx, and I don't know what happened in my real $HOME.
>>>
>>> --Max
>>>
>>>
>>>> On Jan 8, 2020, at 7:38 AM, Michel Trudeau <michel.trudeau at oracle.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I can’t reproduce this.   Anyone else can ?
>>>>
>>>> On Dec 22, 2019, at 5:26 PM, Weijun Wang <weijun.wang at oracle.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Quitting jshell with /exit or Ctrl-D is extremely slow here. It just wait for about half a minute and then quit.
>>>>
>>>> If I create a brand new user and run jshell there, it quits immediately. I don't think I've created any startup scripts for jshell for my own user. "find . | grep jshell" in $HOME shows nothing interesting.
>>>>
>>>> Here is a gist of jstack outputs. There are 2 processes. I took once before Ctrl-D (line 426), and multiple times after it.
>>>>
>>>> https://gist.github.com/wangweij/ead6d024e713f3863df061930e6f2e29
>>>>
>>>> I'm using fastdebug build 14-ea+24-1107 and I'm on macOS 10.14.6.
>>>>
>>>> What could be the problem?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks in advance,
>>>> Max
>>>>
>>>>
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