Re: Very slow Cygwin startup on Windows 7

2015-02-25 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Feb 25 09:04, J. David Boyd wrote: > Corinna Vinschen writes: > > > On Feb 24 14:46, Dennis Hagarty (dehagart) wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> With Roger's very patient help, I was able to get ADInsight capturing > >> information. > >> > >> I did a run with the original dll under 32 bit Cygwin run

Re: Very slow Cygwin startup on Windows 7

2015-02-25 Thread J. David Boyd
Corinna Vinschen writes: > On Feb 24 14:46, Dennis Hagarty (dehagart) wrote: >> Hi, >> >> With Roger's very patient help, I was able to get ADInsight capturing >> information. >> >> I did a run with the original dll under 32 bit Cygwin running a 32 bit >> program (echo). >> >> Output and all p

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 Corinna Vinschen
On Feb 24 14:46, Dennis Hagarty (dehagart) wrote: > Hi, > > With Roger's very patient help, I was able to get ADInsight capturing > information. > > I did a run with the original dll under 32 bit Cygwin running a 32 bit > program (echo). > > Output and all possible reports (in html) from the too

RE: Very slow Cygwin startup on Windows 7

2015-02-24 Thread Dennis Hagarty (dehagart)
Hi, With Roger's very patient help, I was able to get ADInsight capturing information. I did a run with the original dll under 32 bit Cygwin running a 32 bit program (echo). Output and all possible reports (in html) from the tool are here: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/33069639/ADInsight

Re: Very slow Cygwin startup on Windows 7

2015-02-24 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Feb 24 13:30, Dennis Hagarty (dehagart) wrote: > Hi Corinna, > > 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 *

RE: Very slow Cygwin startup on Windows 7

2015-02-24 Thread Dennis Hagarty (dehagart)
Hi Corinna, 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 than before and slightly longer than file

Re: Very slow Cygwin startup on Windows 7

2015-02-24 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Feb 23 20:33, John Ruckstuhl wrote: > Wow I really hoped to contribute with something that seemed -- to me > -- salient... an strace of my 5 minute bash startup under 1.7.34, due > to 70+ SLOW lookups w/ exceptions (all 4.0-4.1 seconds). > But for the life of me I can't get past the spamfilter.

Re: Very slow Cygwin startup on Windows 7

2015-02-23 Thread John Ruckstuhl
Wow I really hoped to contribute with something that seemed -- to me -- salient... an strace of my 5 minute bash startup under 1.7.34, due to 70+ SLOW lookups w/ exceptions (all 4.0-4.1 seconds). But for the life of me I can't get past the spamfilter. ([main] bash 8308 pwdgrp::fetch_account_from_w

Re: Very slow Cygwin startup on Windows 7

2015-02-23 Thread Corinna Vinschen
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. > > >Either you get ADInsight working, or... is it ok if I send you a link > > >to a debug-augmented DLL via PM? > >

RE: Very slow Cygwin startup on Windows 7

2015-02-21 Thread Roger Orr
> > Sysinternals "ADInsight" is a 32bit only tool and, in order to work on > > a 64bit Windows you seem to have to manually inject the DLL > > ADInsightDll.dll (which is extracted into %TEMP%) into the target > > (32-bit!) process. > So, it seems ADInsight seems a non-starter - for my skill level

Re: Very slow Cygwin startup on Windows 7

2015-02-20 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Feb 20 20:50, Andrey Repin wrote: > Greetings, Corinna Vinschen! > > > So what I did now for testing is to add a timer. If cygserver is not > > running, the startup procedure still fetches the group info from the > > user's token... but if it couldn't finish the job within 300ms, it > > just s

Re: Very slow Cygwin startup on Windows 7

2015-02-20 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Corinna Vinschen! > So what I did now for testing is to add a timer. If cygserver is not > running, the startup procedure still fetches the group info from the > user's token... but if it couldn't finish the job within 300ms, it > just stops collecting this information and moves on. >

Re: Very slow Cygwin startup on Windows 7

2015-02-20 Thread Corinna Vinschen
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. > >Either you get ADInsight working, or... is it ok if I send you a link > >to a debug-augmented DLL via PM? > > Sure. Thanks for helping debugging, Dennis. ==

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 Corinna Vinschen
On Feb 19 09:49, Dennis Hagarty (dehagart) wrote: > 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

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 Andrey Repin
Greetings, 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 an

Re: Very slow Cygwin startup on Windows 7

2015-02-18 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Feb 18 11:56, Dennis Hagarty (dehagart) wrote: > 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-a

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

2015-02-18 Thread Corinna Vinschen
Hi Dennis, On Feb 17 10:23, Dennis Hagarty (dehagart) wrote: > >> Thanks Achim - I've recreated my passwd and group files to be sure. > >> I checked some domain lookups and they take a second or two for each entry > >> - quite slow. > > >> So, I'll leave nsswitch where it is for now and I've sta

Re: Very slow Cygwin startup on Windows 7

2015-02-18 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, 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-

Re: Very slow Cygwin startup on Windows 7

2015-02-17 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Feb 17 15:40, Warren Young wrote: > > On Feb 17, 2015, at 2:12 PM, Corinna Vinschen > > wrote: > > > > On Feb 17 11:57, Warren Young wrote: > >> > >> > >> I tried, but I’ve retired the last Windows machine I used to build > >> winsup previously, and I didn’t want to rebuild the Cygwin build

Re: Very slow Cygwin startup on Windows 7

2015-02-17 Thread Warren Young
> On Feb 17, 2015, at 2:12 PM, Corinna Vinschen > wrote: > > On Feb 17 11:57, Warren Young wrote: >> >> >> I tried, but I’ve retired the last Windows machine I used to build >> winsup previously, and I didn’t want to rebuild the Cygwin build >> environment on the VM that replaced it just to te

Re: Very slow Cygwin startup on Windows 7

2015-02-17 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Feb 17 12:43, Warren Young wrote: > > On Feb 15, 2015, at 2:30 AM, Corinna Vinschen > > wrote: > > > > On Feb 13 14:32, Warren Young wrote: > >> > >> I tried to check out a new copy of the Cygwin CVS tree to do the merge > >> myself, but I got a public key denied complaint. > > > > If your

Re: Very slow Cygwin startup on Windows 7

2015-02-17 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Feb 17 11:57, Warren Young wrote: > > On Feb 15, 2015, at 2:37 AM, Corinna Vinschen > > wrote: > > > > On Feb 13 15:38, Warren Young wrote: > >> > >> I folded Andrey’s changes in and made more of my own. > > > > Thanks. Did you run make? > > I tried, but I’ve retired the last Windows mach

Re: Very slow Cygwin startup on Windows 7

2015-02-17 Thread Warren Young
> On Feb 15, 2015, at 2:30 AM, Corinna Vinschen > wrote: > > On Feb 13 14:32, Warren Young wrote: >> >> I tried to check out a new copy of the Cygwin CVS tree to do the merge >> myself, but I got a public key denied complaint. > > If your key doesn't > work anymore, you might ask on the overse

Re: Very slow Cygwin startup on Windows 7

2015-02-17 Thread Warren Young
> On Feb 15, 2015, at 2:37 AM, Corinna Vinschen > wrote: > > On Feb 13 15:38, Warren Young wrote: >> >> I folded Andrey’s changes in and made more of my own. > > Thanks. Did you run make? I tried, but I’ve retired the last Windows machine I used to build winsup previously, and I didn’t want

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 Andrey Repin
Greetings, Dennis Hagarty (dehagart)! >>If you are accepting suggestions, and up for some experimentation, try this: >># getent passwd $(id -u) > /etc/passwd >># getent group $(id -G) > /etc/group >># echo -e "#\npasswd: files db\ngroup: files db\n" > /etc/nsswitch.conf >> >>and start bash withou

Re: Very slow Cygwin startup on Windows 7

2015-02-17 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Feb 17 10:23, 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 passwd and group entries to 'files db' makes it very slow > again. >

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

2015-02-16 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Corinna Vinschen! >> I was unable to find relevant CVS tree. The winsup/doc appears to contain the >> parts of /cygwin-ug-net/ but not the /faq/ part of the website. > They do. It's just the sh***y web interface of cvsweb, which only shows > up to 25 entries. > If you look at https:/

Re: Very slow Cygwin startup on Windows 7

2015-02-16 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Feb 15 21:38, Andrey Repin wrote: > Greetings, Corinna Vinschen! > > >> >> If you are accepting suggestions, and up for some experimentation, try > >> >> this: > >> >> > >> >> # getent passwd $(id -u) > /etc/passwd > >> >> # getent group $(id -G) > /etc/group > >> >> # echo -e "#\npasswd: fil

Re: Very slow Cygwin startup on Windows 7

2015-02-15 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Corinna Vinschen! >> >> If you are accepting suggestions, and up for some experimentation, try >> >> this: >> >> >> >> # getent passwd $(id -u) > /etc/passwd >> >> # getent group $(id -G) > /etc/group >> >> # echo -e "#\npasswd: files db\ngroup: files db\n" > /etc/nsswitch.conf >> >>

Re: Very slow Cygwin startup on Windows 7

2015-02-15 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Feb 13 15:38, Warren Young wrote: > > On Feb 13, 2015, at 2:32 PM, Warren Young wrote: > > > > I tried to check out a new copy of the Cygwin CVS tree to do the merge > > myself, but I got a public key denied complaint. > > I folded Andrey’s changes in and made more of my own. Thanks. Did y

Re: Very slow Cygwin startup on Windows 7

2015-02-15 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Feb 13 14:32, Warren Young wrote: > > On Feb 13, 2015, at 1:55 AM, Corinna Vinschen > > wrote: > > > > It reads nicely. The paragraph starting with "The 1.7.35 release is > > expected..." needs a tweak as soon as 1.7.35 goes release, of course, > > but otherwise it's really neat. > > It als

Re: Very slow Cygwin startup on Windows 7

2015-02-13 Thread Warren Young
> On Feb 13, 2015, at 2:32 PM, Warren Young wrote: > > I tried to check out a new copy of the Cygwin CVS tree to do the merge > myself, but I got a public key denied complaint. I folded Andrey’s changes in and made more of my own. See the attached patch. cygdll-start-slow.patch Description

Re: Very slow Cygwin startup on Windows 7

2015-02-13 Thread Warren Young
> On Feb 13, 2015, at 1:55 AM, Corinna Vinschen > wrote: > > It reads nicely. The paragraph starting with "The 1.7.35 release is > expected..." needs a tweak as soon as 1.7.35 goes release, of course, > but otherwise it's really neat. It also still has a bug from the original, where I didn’t f

Re: Very slow Cygwin startup on Windows 7

2015-02-13 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Corinna Vinschen! > On Feb 13 03:34, Andrey Repin wrote: >> Greetings, Corinna Vinschen! >> >> >> [...] >> >> If you are accepting suggestions, and up for some experimentation, try >> >> this: >> >> >> >> # getent passwd $(id -u) > /etc/passwd >> >> # getent group $(id -G) > /etc/gro

Re: Very slow Cygwin startup on Windows 7

2015-02-13 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Feb 13 03:34, Andrey Repin wrote: > Greetings, Corinna Vinschen! > > >> [...] > >> If you are accepting suggestions, and up for some experimentation, try > >> this: > >> > >> # getent passwd $(id -u) > /etc/passwd > >> # getent group $(id -G) > /etc/group > >> # echo -e "#\npasswd: files db\n

Re: Very slow Cygwin startup on Windows 7

2015-02-13 Thread Houder
> Greetings, Corinna Vinschen! [snip[ >> Do you feel up to the task to extend the FAQ entry > >> https://cygwin.com/faq/faq.html#faq.using.startup-slow > >> with a description of your solution? > > I took a liberty to reorder and rewrite it a little. > Please tell me, if I didn't lost anything in

Re: Very slow Cygwin startup on Windows 7

2015-02-12 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Corinna Vinschen! >> [...] >> If you are accepting suggestions, and up for some experimentation, try this: >> >> # getent passwd $(id -u) > /etc/passwd >> # getent group $(id -G) > /etc/group >> # echo -e "#\npasswd: files db\ngroup: files db\n" > /etc/nsswitch.conf >> >> and start ba

Re: Very slow Cygwin startup on Windows 7

2015-02-12 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Corinna Vinschen! >> >> [...] >> >> If you are accepting suggestions, and up for some experimentation, try >> >> this: >> >> >> >> # getent passwd $(id -u) > /etc/passwd >> >> # getent group $(id -G) > /etc/group >> >> # echo -e "#\npasswd: files db\ngroup: files db\n" > /etc/nsswitch

Re: Very slow Cygwin startup on Windows 7

2015-02-12 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Achim Gratz! > Andrey Repin yandex.ru> writes: >> # getent passwd $(id -u) > /etc/passwd > # mkpasswd -l >> /etc/passwd >> # getent group $(id -G) > /etc/group > # mkgroup -l >> /etc/group You totally missed the point of my suggestion. Like, absolutely. -- WBR, Andrey Repin (anrdae.

Re: Very slow Cygwin startup on Windows 7

2015-02-12 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Feb 12 22:45, Andrey Repin wrote: > Greetings, Corinna Vinschen! > > > Hi Andrey, > > > On Feb 10 03:05, Andrey Repin wrote: > >> [...] > >> If you are accepting suggestions, and up for some experimentation, try > >> this: > >> > >> # getent passwd $(id -u) > /etc/passwd > >> # getent group

Re: Very slow Cygwin startup on Windows 7

2015-02-12 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Corinna Vinschen! > Hi Andrey, > On Feb 10 03:05, Andrey Repin wrote: >> [...] >> If you are accepting suggestions, and up for some experimentation, try this: >> >> # getent passwd $(id -u) > /etc/passwd >> # getent group $(id -G) > /etc/group >> # echo -e "#\npasswd: files db\ngroup:

Re: Very slow Cygwin startup on Windows 7

2015-02-12 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Eric Blake! >>> # echo -e "#\npasswd: files db\ngroup: files db\n" > /etc/nsswitch.conf > 'echo -e' is non-portable; use printf instead. Knew I'm missing something. Sure, will do. Thank you. -- WBR, Andrey Repin (anrdae...@yandex.ru) 12.02.2015, <22:43> Sorry for my terrible englis

Re: Very slow Cygwin startup on Windows 7

2015-02-12 Thread Eric Blake
On 02/12/2015 05:09 AM, Achim Gratz wrote: > Andrey Repin yandex.ru> writes: >> # getent passwd $(id -u) > /etc/passwd > # mkpasswd -l >> /etc/passwd >> # getent group $(id -G) > /etc/group > # mkgroup -l >> /etc/group >> # echo -e "#\npasswd: files db\ngroup: files db\n" > /etc/nsswitch.conf 'ec

Re: Very slow Cygwin startup on Windows 7

2015-02-12 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Feb 12 12:09, Achim Gratz wrote: > Andrey Repin yandex.ru> writes: > > # getent passwd $(id -u) > /etc/passwd > # mkpasswd -l >> /etc/passwd > > # getent group $(id -G) > /etc/group > # mkgroup -l >> /etc/group > > # echo -e "#\npasswd: files db\ngroup: files db\n" > /etc/nsswitch.conf Why?

Re: Very slow Cygwin startup on Windows 7

2015-02-12 Thread Achim Gratz
Andrey Repin yandex.ru> writes: > # getent passwd $(id -u) > /etc/passwd # mkpasswd -l >> /etc/passwd > # getent group $(id -G) > /etc/group # mkgroup -l >> /etc/group > # echo -e "#\npasswd: files db\ngroup: files db\n" > /etc/nsswitch.conf Regards, Achim. -- Problem reports: http://cygw

Re: Very slow Cygwin startup on Windows 7

2015-02-12 Thread Corinna Vinschen
Hi Andrey, On Feb 10 03:05, Andrey Repin wrote: > [...] > If you are accepting suggestions, and up for some experimentation, try this: > > # getent passwd $(id -u) > /etc/passwd > # getent group $(id -G) > /etc/group > # echo -e "#\npasswd: files db\ngroup: files db\n" > /etc/nsswitch.conf > > a

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 Andrey Repin
Greetings, 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

Re: Very slow Cygwin startup on Windows 7

2015-02-09 Thread Achim Gratz
Dennis Hagarty (dehagart) writes: > But I'm just wondering how this failed after I updated - I was using it > successfully 30 mins previously. > I've had it configured this way for years. Before the update, Cygwin didn't talk to your DC, but it does now. The details are in the announcement for t

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 Corinna Vinschen
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 passwd and group entries to 'files db' makes it very slow > >> again. > > > >Lim

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 Achim Gratz
Dennis Hagarty (dehagart) writes: > 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 Cygw

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

Re: Very slow Cygwin startup on Windows 7

2015-02-09 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Feb 9 11:12, Dennis Hagarty (dehagart) wrote: > 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 > befor