Greetings, Corinna Vinschen! >> > Works very quickly for me. Problem is, I don't know anything about >> > your environment. Are you working remote or in an office? How many >> > groups are in your user token? What is the result of this funny >> > little statement Dennis created: >> > >> > cmd /v:on /c "echo !TIME! & C:\cygwin64\bin\mintty.exe /bin/echo "test" >> & echo !TIME!" >> >> On win7: that command takes .17, .44, .48, .53 sec between 1st & 2nd time >> stamp >> >> That had 'db' only for passwd/group in nsswitch.conf, no cygwin procs >> running including cygserver.
> Sounds good to me. >> On problematic winxp box: >> [passwd, group, db_shell: 'files db', 'files db' & /bin/dash] >> 16.83, 17.03, 24.80, 28.79, 27.99, 27.39 sec >> >> [passwd, group, db_shell: db, db & /bin/dash] >> 23.51, 27.91, 28.78 sec > Doesn't sound good at all. Terrible in fact. That a 32 or 64 bit XP? > I didn't fire up my XP test machines for ages and I'm not overly enjoying > it, but I guess I have to. Oh well, hang on... > [...time passes...] > [...starting up...] > [...XP...] > [...32 bit...] > [...updating...] > [...testing...] > Hmm, no. In my case there's no visible delay starting mintty, and tcsh > is my login shell, too. mkpasswd and mkgroup are running comparably > fast as on my W8.1 64 bit machine I'm using for testing in the first > place. > Something strange is going on on your XP machine, it seems. Although I've migrated to Win7, I'm still using XP systems extensively, many of them have Cygwin, and I didn't see anything even remotely close to his results, ever. His messages basically left me speechless, I was afraid to guess. The half a minute startup of a shell, I could only attribute to environmental issues. -- WBR, Andrey Repin (anrdae...@yandex.ru) 26.02.2015, <00:40> 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
