Andrey Repin wrote at 00:42 +0300 on Feb 26, 2015: > >> 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.
I would not be surprised if some of the malware... err software that our IT folks load onto windows installations is causing some problem (BLODA-like effects in cygwin parlance). If other XP users in AD domains are not having similar trouble, I'm content to chalk this up to a local issue (that is perhaps tickled by some interaction with cygwin 1.7.34+). For now cygserver is an acceptible workaround and some day this XP box will be retired (wiped and replaced with something other than windows). -- 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
