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


On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 9:59 PM, Adam Kessel <ajkessel@gmail.com> wrote:
> Now I'm really confused.
>
> cygwin was very slow -- then I killed Dropbox, and it sped back up.
> But after a while it reverted to slow again (without Dropbox
> restarting). I've repeated this behavior with a few other tasks--same
> thing happened with Google Desktop and Skydrive. I'm not sure it
> actually matters which task I kill -- but killing them will speed
> things up for a bit and then it seems to revert to very slow again,
> even if the tasks aren't restarted.
>
> Can anyone offer a way to narrow/isolate the cause here? Is the above
> behavior consistent with any hypothesis?

Was running very slowly; just closed Google Chrome and it got fast
again. Then re-opened Chrome and slow again. So it really doesn't seem
to matter what program it is.

Adam

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