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Re: slow bash spawn
- From: Thorsten Kampe <thorsten at thorstenkampe dot de>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2007 20:21:36 -0000
- Subject: Re: slow bash spawn
- References: <loom.20070318T141819-758@post.gmane.org>
* Marc Compere (Sun, 18 Mar 2007 13:27:31 +0000 (UTC))
> The recent setup.exe update has caused bash.exe to have startup times approx.
> 10x longer than before. sh.exe starts pretty quickly but bash.exe via
> cygwin.bat takes ~30 seconds to start. Took just a couple of seconds before.
> Cpu is nowhere near pinned, hovering around 3% or 5%.
>
> Each bash process spawn from within bash takes a long time as well
> making ./configure and make take a lot longer than before.
>
> Similar problem here: http://www.nabble.com/Slow-compile-issue-with-cygwin-
> make-since-v1.5.17-t3235008.html
>
> Interestingly enough, sh.exe spawns relatively quickly.
Now, that's really interesting as bash and sh are exactly the same
file...
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