RE: Very slow Cygwin startup on Windows 7

2015-02-24 Thread Dennis Hagarty (dehagart)
Yep - absolutely. >> Using x86_64/cygwin1-20150223.dll.xz?? >> >> ~ uname -a >> CYGWIN_NT-6.1 DEHAGART-WS02 1.7.35s(0.286/5/3) 20150223 21:02:38 x86_64 >> Cygwin >> >> ~ cat /etc/nsswitch.conf >> passwd: db >> group: db >> >> First manual start of bash shell *seemed* to take slightly longer th

RE: Very slow Cygwin startup on Windows 7

2015-02-24 Thread Dennis Hagarty (dehagart)
00:00.17 I.e. significantly better. Regards Dennis -Original Message- Hi Dennis, On Feb 20 17:20, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Feb 19 19:04, Dennis Hagarty (dehagart) wrote: > > >It would be pretty helpful to get an idea what's so slow in your case. > > >Ei

RE: Very slow Cygwin startup on Windows 7

2015-02-24 Thread Dennis Hagarty (dehagart)
t; 14:22:10.72 14:22:10.89 00:00.17 I.e. significantly better. Regards Dennis -Original Message- Hi Dennis, On Feb 20 17:20, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Feb 19 19:04, Dennis Hagarty (dehagart) wrote: > > >It would be pretty helpful to get an idea what'

RE: Very slow Cygwin startup on Windows 7

2015-02-19 Thread Dennis Hagarty (dehagart)
Hi Corinna, >Can you please try this test version without cygserver, and with >the passwd and group settings in /etc/nsswitch.conf set to > > passwd: db > group: db > It would be very interesting to know if this improves the situation for > you. Jus

RE: Very slow Cygwin startup on Windows 7

2015-02-19 Thread Dennis Hagarty (dehagart)
Hi Corinna, >>>Can you please try this test version without cygserver, and with >>>the passwd and group settings in /etc/nsswitch.conf set to >>> >>> passwd: db >>> group: db >> >>> It would be very interesting to know if this improves the situation for you. >> >> Just did it for 1.7.35-0.2 -

RE: Very slow Cygwin startup on Windows 7

2015-02-18 Thread Dennis Hagarty (dehagart)
nrdae...@yandex.ru] Sent: Wednesday, 18 February 2015 14:42 To: Dennis Hagarty (dehagart); cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Very slow Cygwin startup on Windows 7 Greetings, Dennis Hagarty (dehagart)! >>>>Could you please do me a favor and repeat the test with a little deviation >&

RE: Very slow Cygwin startup on Windows 7

2015-02-18 Thread Dennis Hagarty (dehagart)
Hi Corinna, > You didn't reply to my suggestions. But, anyway. Due to the nice >report in https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2015-02/msg00511.html I now >came up with a new Cygwin test release 1.7.35-0.3, see >https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-announce/2015-02/msg00133.html Sorry, maybe I got a bit confus

RE: Very slow Cygwin startup on Windows 7

2015-02-18 Thread Dennis Hagarty (dehagart)
Hi Corinna, >> I ran your commands to recreate /etc/passwd and /etc/group > >Ideally passwd and group are set to "db" only for this, just to be sure. > >> (they now contain 1 line and 3 lines respectively - before it had >> about 10 & 21 lines in each) > >Hang on. getent group $(id -G) only retu

RE: Very slow Cygwin startup on Windows 7

2015-02-18 Thread Dennis Hagarty (dehagart)
>>>Could you please do me a favor and repeat the test with a little deviation of >>>my previous suggestion? >>>1. Remove /etc/{nsswitch.conf,passwd,group} files. (Rename, move away - by >>>your choice.) >>>2. Stop cygserver, if it is running, and any other Cygwin-related programs. >>>3. Start the

RE: Very slow Cygwin startup on Windows 7

2015-02-17 Thread Dennis Hagarty (dehagart)
>> Apologies for my slow response - urgent RFI's. >No need for apology :) And thank you for chiming back in. Your help is much >appreciated. >> Ok, so I reverted nsswitch to the 'files db' setting. >> I stopped cygserver >> I ran your commands to recreate /etc/passwd and /etc/group >> (they now

RE: Very slow Cygwin startup on Windows 7

2015-02-17 Thread Dennis Hagarty (dehagart)
Well, nsswitch.conf was a good suggestion - I'd left it as the default (which is empty), but I added a 'files' entry and it came good again. Changing the passwd and group entries to 'files db' makes it very slow again. >>> >>>Limit the number of entries that Cygwin fetches from

RE: Very slow Cygwin startup on Windows 7

2015-02-11 Thread Dennis Hagarty (dehagart)
t I'll use your suggestion tomorrow. Cheers Dennis -Original Message- From: Andrey Repin [mailto:anrdae...@yandex.ru] Sent: Tuesday, 10 February 2015 01:05 To: Dennis Hagarty (dehagart); cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Very slow Cygwin startup on Windows 7 Greetings, Dennis Hagarty (

RE: Very slow Cygwin startup on Windows 7

2015-02-09 Thread Dennis Hagarty (dehagart)
slow Cygwin startup on Windows 7 On Feb 9 18:18, Dennis Hagarty (dehagart) wrote: > >> Well, nsswitch.conf was a good suggestion - I'd left it as the default > >> (which is empty), but I added a 'files' entry and it came good again. > >> Changing the passw

RE: Very slow Cygwin startup on Windows 7

2015-02-09 Thread Dennis Hagarty (dehagart)
>> Well, nsswitch.conf was a good suggestion - I'd left it as the default >> (which is empty), but I added a 'files' entry and it came good again. >> Changing the passwd and group entries to 'files db' makes it very slow >> again. > >Limit the number of entries that Cygwin fetches from the DC. Als

RE: Very slow Cygwin startup on Windows 7

2015-02-09 Thread Dennis Hagarty (dehagart)
>> Hi, >> >> I've been a long-time Cygwin user and become quite dependent on it. >> >> So, I'm in a bit of a pickle since I did an update from a mirror site today, >> and now my Cygwin window startup takes about 3-4 MINUTES (it was < 2 seconds >> before). >> >> I'd been using it and all was well

Very slow Cygwin startup on Windows 7

2015-02-09 Thread Dennis Hagarty (dehagart)
Hi, I've been a long-time Cygwin user and become quite dependent on it. So, I'm in a bit of a pickle since I did an update from a mirror site today, and now my Cygwin window startup takes about 3-4 MINUTES (it was < 2 seconds before). I'd been using it and all was well, and then the update see