I am also hit by the slow AD issue; so thanks for the solution. mkpasswd takes an hour and mkgroup takes longer -- is there anything I can suggest to our administrators that would help make this time less?
We have not had previous problems reported with our AD being slow. Regards, Roger. -----Original Message----- From: Corinna Vinschen [mailto:corinna-cyg...@cygwin.com] Sent: 11 February 2015 08:53 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: slow startup after upgrade On Feb 10 15:52, Warren Young wrote: > > On Feb 10, 2015, at 2:38 AM, Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cyg...@cygwin.com> wrote: > > > > "Starting a Cygwin shell is slow, what's going on?" > > > > I'd not be overly grudgy if somebody wants to come up with a FAQ text. > > I'm not entirely sure I understand the problem, but I've attached a > starting point. > > I'm pretty sure the issue brought up in this thread isn't the only > possible cause of slow launches. DNS can do it, too, and I suspect if > I wracked my brain some more on it, I could come up with other causes. > > The DocBook isn't validated. It may need to be adjusted before it > will let the FAQ document build correctly. It might also be good to > include olinks or ulinks to other parts of the Cygwin docs. Thanks a lot. I added this to the FAQ in CVS with just the changes necessary to make it a FAQ entry. If somebody has to add something, feel free to send text. Thanks, Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Maintainer cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- 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
