Greetings, John Hein! > Without 'files' in /etc/nsswitch.conf or 'cygserver' running, the > testing cycle here is slow. So I've been a bit delayed at reporting > back. I know some people have alleged wonderful speedups with > 1.7.35-0.3, but I can't report the same.
> Here I'm in an AD environment with ~8000 entries in AD (as determined > by 'mkpasswd -d | wc') and I'm in 200+ groups. I guess I'd call it > somewhat large, and the network is geographically spread out and > connected by links that vary in speed (the slowest is probably 10s of > Mbps), although there is a local AD "slave" on the local LAN. > It's particularly slow if I force using my shell of choice (tcsh) > rather than forcing '/bin/dash' as the 'db_shell' entry in > nsswitch.conf. This is likely because of all the various things that > get executed at shell startup (csh.cshrc, profile.d/*.csh). I can't comment on this matter, but this seems RATHER suspicious. > Just to avoid any possible cruft from my old cygwin install, I > installed a minimal fresh cygwin. The only change was to > nsswitch.conf: > passwd: db > group: db > db_shell: /bin/dash > Starting mintty with db_shell set to /bin/tcsh has taken up to a half > hour before the prompt appears. I don't have a complicated .cshrc > (just a few alias definitions & 'set' commands). You can get a more reliable test of the changes to Cygwin specifically, if you just run `id` directly (let's say, from native console, or a batch file). > Also mkpasswd -d seems to be taking a long time (haven't had it > complete in hours now). That didn't happen with 1.7.34 - maybe > there's a local issue here on our network. mkpasswd is trying to pull up ALL records for ALL users in the domain. Even with recent changes, I can imagine it taking a lot of time in a spread out network. > What's a good way to debug > what's happening with mkpasswd? Seems like its not doing anything. Sysinternals ADInsight, as has been mentioned before. https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb897539 -- WBR, Andrey Repin (anrdae...@yandex.ru) 20.02.2015, <05:50> Sorry for my terrible english... -- 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
