I recently installed Cygwin (1.5.24(0.156/4/2)) on a new (dual-core)
machine, and am seeing much slower performance than a February install
of Cygwin on an older machine (no longer available for comparison, I'm
afraid).
I suspect it is a problem with disk IO, mostly because it is more
noticable in
Lev Bishop wrote:
> On 3/23/07, Zak Johnson wrote:
> >I first blamed XFT, as it manifested itself most obviously when starting
> >XFT applications;
>
> fc-cache helps?
fc-cache fails:
$ fc-cache
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts: failed to write cache
/usr/X11R6/lib/X1
Dave Korn wrote:
> Do you have any of the following installed?
>
> - Sonic Solutions burning software containing DLA component (dlactrlw.exe)
> - Norton/MacAffee/Symantec antivirus or antispyware
These two; no others. I disabled DLA using Sysinternals autoruns, as
per the "Cygwin fork()" threa
Dave Korn wrote:
> Suspect DLA then.
No such luck, I'm afriad. Uninstalled DLA (and all other Roxio
software, for good measure). Rebooted. Verified DLA is not running and
no DLA-related DLLs exist. No change in behavior.
In fact, I see similar behavior when booted into safe mode. What else
Lev Bishop wrote:
> With the default fontconfig install, fc-cache tries to put the caches
> in /var/cache/fontconfig and ~/.fontconfig. Check you can write and
> create files in those directories.
Thanks for the suggestions. ~/.fontconfig did not exist;
/var/cache/fontconfig was owned and writeab
Zak Johnson wrote:
> I recently installed Cygwin (1.5.24(0.156/4/2)) on a new (dual-core)
> machine, and am seeing much slower performance than a February install
> of Cygwin on an older machine (no longer available for comparison, I'm
> afraid).
> [...]
I've tracked
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