On Feb 9 18:18, Dennis Hagarty (dehagart) wrote: > >> Well, nsswitch.conf was a good suggestion - I'd left it as the default > >> (which is empty), but I added a 'files' entry and it came good again. > >> Changing the passwd and group entries to 'files db' makes it very slow > >> again. > > > >Limit the number of entries that Cygwin fetches from the DC. Also, > >starting a cygserver would help. > > > >> Not sure what changed here, I have a very good connection to my DC, > >> but obviously something wrong here now. > > > >You may be surprised at how slow a DC really can be when it sees some > >load, regardless of connection speed when you try to fetch several > >thousand entries. If I were to try a 'mkpasswd -d' on our DC I'd > >usually have to wait about an hour with very little network traffic to > >show (the resulting file would be about 4MiB). > > > > > >Regards, > >Achim. > > Thanks Achim - I've recreated my passwd and group files to be sure. > I checked some domain lookups and they take a second or two for each entry - > quite slow. > > So, I'll leave nsswitch where it is for now and I've started cygserver. > > But I'm just wondering how this failed after I updated - I was using it > successfully 30 mins previously. > I've had it configured this way for years.
https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-announce/2015-02/msg00009.html It helps to read the announcements ;) Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Maintainer cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat
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