# Distributed Ruby slow startup under Windows XP **URL:** \ **Category:** Ruby\ **Created:** [August 4, 2006, 12:56pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/distributed-ruby-slow-startup-under-windows-xp/101354 "2006-08-04T12:56:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![philpraxis](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/77aa72/32.png) [@philpraxis](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/philpraxis)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2006, 12:56pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/distributed-ruby-slow-startup-under-windows-xp/101354/1 "2006-08-04T12:56:56Z")
Hi, Running a ruby program under Windows XP shows a slot startup (about three seconds on my computer), compared to Unix. ## I’m running this: ## require ‘drb’ DRb.start\_service() obj = DRbObject.new(nil, ‘druby://localhost:9000’) puts “Client” puts obj.getflowers The problem seems to come from “DRb.start\_service()”. Is there anything we can do against this? During startup, CPU is not saturated at all… Thanks, * * * Philippe L., Ing. Dipl. EPFL Attik System rte de la Fonderie 2 1700 Fribourg Switzerland [http://www.attiksystem.ch](http://www.attiksystem.ch) Tel: +41 (26) 422 13 75 Fax: +41 (26) 422 13 76