With regard to this performance problem, I've discovered that this is not just an sshd problem -- scripts/commands I run through cron also exhibit the same behavior. (ie. find, curl, date, etc). Is there something about the user context under which these services run that could be causing this? Or does this point to cygrunsrv?
What does your PATH environment variable look like? Make sure it doesn't contain any network paths. As soon as I removed them, I got much better performance with ssh (I haven't used cron with Cygwin).
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