On Wed, 12 Nov 2003, koorapati, koundinya wrote: > I restricted my path to just /usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin , but > still there's been no change in slowness that I see with every command. Here > we are given a customized Windows O.S for the company I work, by Dell > (Windows 2000 Pro). This is really mysterious. In strace I'm not able to see > which system call is eating up so much time as when I start a program say > 'ls' with strace, I see nothing and only as ls begins to run after getting > loaded, strace throws it's output. I guess strace is also taking it's own > time to run ?. I'm also not sure what tools on windows could be used for > troubleshooting as this is my first close encounter with MS Windows :) > There is *lots* of info about these kinds of problems if you just look.
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=commands+slow+to+start+site%3Acygwin.com&btnG=Google+Search Does /usr/bin/ls.exe run slow? And, this *still* applies: > http://www.cygwin.com/problems.html > -- Brian Ford Senior Realtime Software Engineer VITAL - Visual Simulation Systems FlightSafety International Phone: 314-551-8460 Fax: 314-551-8444 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/