Am 12.07.2010 03:00, schrieb Jet Thompson: > It is now taking over 30 seconds for bash to come up, > whereas in 1.5 it would take 1-2 seconds. > > Doing an ls of my ~ directory takes 5 seconds. > > Running a cucumber test takes 5-6 minutes. > > Any idea what could be causing this?
Virus, Spyware and similar scanners, and broken software. > At this point, I can not use Cygwin for development. > Not feasible to use such a slow environment. > > Hope someone may have some good ideas. > I am using an older XP machine, but still it is > dual 2.8 Xeon processors, 800MHz bus, 7200rpm > sata hard drive with 8MB cache. It is painful > to see such dismal performance. ls isn't representative, as it uses stat() which is painfully slow on Cygwin. If bash is slow to start, see if uninstalling bash-completion fixes it. For me it helped quite a bit. -- Matthias Andree -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
