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Re: bash very slow in cygwin 1.7.16-1 Win7/64 bit


On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 11:22 AM, Adam Kessel wrote:
>
> On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 9:33 AM, jojelino wrote:
> > if the SkyDrive is trademark of M$ and if it needs network connection to
> > remote server, it would piss you off like you have been experienced.
> > If it is the case, please stop using *Skydrive* mounted directory as
> > home directory for specific user of cygwin unless your network connection
> > is faster than your hard drive and it isn't that fast for sure according
> > to your complaint.
>
> SkyDrive is not a network-mounted directory. Instead, it is a local
> directory that is periodically synced to the cloud. But you can have
> no network access at all and it works fine. Indeed, when running
> cygwin offline (no network) I get the same result. Also, if I change
> my home directory to something that is not synced to the cloud (e.g.
> just c:\) I get the same slowness.
>
> I have been keeping my home directory in SkyDrive for a while so I
> have the same home directory across multiple devices. The slowness is
> only recent, long after I started using SkyDrive.
>
> Adam
>

Did you look into the possible BLODA?  What security software are you
running on the computer?

http://cygwin.com/faq/faq.using.html#faq.using.bloda

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