On Fri, Sep 01, 2006 at 08:37:09AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >On Fri, Sep 01, 2006 at 10:33:47AM -0400, Igor Peshansky wrote: >> While Cygwin is an *emulation* layer, and emulation is inherently slower >> than straight execution, there are other potential reasons for the >> slowness. Check your anti-virus and firewall software settings. If >> possible, exclude the Cygwin filesystem from checking by those tools... >> Even little things (like making the tool aware of the often-used Cygwin >> programs and telling it to not check "outbound email messages" (!) sent by >> those programs) can help speed up Cygwin... > >It's definitely none of those as I don't run any firewall or antivirus >software whatsoever on this box. Windows 2003 Server, minimal set of >services. The machine literally sits at 0% CPU unless I'm using it.
Try using binary mounts instead of text mounts. cgf -- 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/
