11 seconds for garbage collection? 21.2-b34

In XEmacs 21.2 (beta34) "Molpe" [Lucid] (sparc-sun-solaris2.7) of Tue May 30 2000 on rhea configured using `configure --prefix=/export/users/hamishm/xemacs --site-prefixes=/export/users/hamishm/gnome:/export/users/hamishm --pdump --with-athena=xaw --with-menubars=lucid --with-scrollbars=lucid --with-dialogs=athena --with-widgets=athena --with-dragndrop=no --with-tooltalk=no' CVS updated at around 9:22 AM EDT May 30. Garbage collections are taking 11 seconds. This seems excessive. auto-gc-threshold -> 10000 gc-cons-threshold -> 5000000 XEmacs has a shell running, gnus, a number of other packages loaded. Running for less than 24 hours. Result of (garbage-collect) : ((340668 . 224373) (25965 . 1448) (3028 . 20518) 2451818 980624 (conses-used 340668 conses-free 224377 cons-storage 6798344 symbols-used 25965 symbols-free 1448 symbol-storage 660212 bit-vectors-used 0 bit-vectors-total-length 0 bit-vector-storage 0 compiled-functions-used 7398 compiled-functions-free 362 compiled-function-storage 219136 short-strings-used 88964 long-strings-used 4 strings-free 45264 short-strings-total-length 2395830 short-string-storage 3022848 long-strings-total-length 55988 string-header-storage 2152052 floats-used 459 floats-free 4403 float-storage 79560 markers-used 3028 markers-free 20518 marker-storage 568232 events-used 105 events-free 1158 event-storage 148200 extents-used 12915 extents-free 17391 extent-storage 851968 faces-used 198 face-storage 15048 glyphs-used 153 glyph-storage 6732 image-instances-used 5220 image-instance-storage 647280 font-instances-used 9 font-instance-storage 324 color-instances-used 43 color-instance-storage 1032 popup-datas-used 5162 popup-data-storage 123888 gui-items-used 29280 gui-items-freed 94 gui-item-storage 1873920 window-configurations-used 39 window-configurations-on-free-list 3 window-configurations-freed 12 window-configuration-storage 57608 windows-used 33 windows-freed 7 window-storage 17952 frames-used 4 frame-storage 1376 devices-used 2 device-storage 336 consoles-used 4 console-storage 416 specifiers-used 2637 specifier-storage 155592 timeouts-used 2 timeouts-on-free-list 2 timeout-storage 80 command-builders-used 2 command-builder-storage 112 keymaps-used 525 keymaps-freed 9 keymap-storage 21000 extent-auxiliarys-used 349 extent-auxiliarys-freed 25 extent-auxiliary-storage 19544 extent-infos-used 135 extent-infos-freed 50 extent-info-storage 2700 buffers-used 409 buffers-freed 14 buffer-storage 116156 opaque-ptrs-used 1 opaque-ptrs-on-free-list 6 opaque-ptr-storage 16 opaques-used 2825 opaques-freed 6 opaque-storage 290162 range-tables-used 1 range-table-storage 16 char-tables-used 76 char-tables-freed 4 char-table-storage 79648 processes-used 5 process-storage 360 streams-used 9 streams-on-free-list 5 stream-storage 947 hash-tables-used 1236 hash-tables-freed 56 hash-table-storage 79104 weak-lists-used 2676 weak-list-storage 64224 lcrecord-lists-used 17 lcrecord-list-storage 408 vectors-used 17264 vectors-freed 72 vector-storage 977968 symbol-value-buffer-locals-used 530 symbol-value-buffer-local-storage 19080 symbol-value-varaliases-used 16 symbol-value-varalias-storage 448))