> > "CYGWIN_NT-5.1 barnhartr 1.5.25(0.156/4/2) 2008-06-12 19:34 i686 Cygwin" > on a Dell Lattitude 830 portable (2.5GHz Intel CoreDuo, 3.5GB RAM, 111GB > disk). > > Yesterday, cygwin was fine. Today, a bash window takes 30-60 seconds to > startup, and simple commands (ls, man, ps, vi) take 10-30 seconds to start > running. Once they start, they seem to run fine. For example "time ls -l" > in my home directory (only 6 files and 5 directories) shows: > > real 0m9.296s > user 0m0.046s > sys 0m0.171s > > Cygwin is the only reason I tolerate Windows but this performance renders > it effectively useless. > > I suspect a couple of things that might be affecting cygwin since > yesterday: > > 1) I installed VMware Player 2.5.0 build-118166, but have not run it yet. > 2) I loaded a VM image of about ~30GB onto my hard drive, but did not > execute it. > 3) Our company (SAIC) may be remotely installing Windows services, patches > or even software IAW company policies. I can't necessarily tell when this > is happening. > > Are there any known problems with VMware and cygwin? > > Does anyone have any ideas what might be causing this crippling > performance degradation? [Manning, Sidney]
I wonder if your $PATH got screwed-up. I've had issues with when my $PATH contained slow remote shares. I use cygwin and vmware player (version 2.0.4) daily and have never noticed an interaction. -- 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/
