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Re: all commands start up sloooooow......
- To: Carl Thompson <cet at carlthompson dot net>, Frank Merenda <FMerenda at vetexchange dot com>
- Subject: Re: all commands start up sloooooow......
- From: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd at yahoo dot com>
- Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2000 06:50:17 -0700 (PDT)
- Cc: Cygwin List <cygwin at sourceware dot cygnus dot com>
- Reply-To: earnie_boyd at yahoo dot com
What I've noticed on this issue is that if I disable the Virus Scanner speed
improves at an unbelievable amount. WITIH is that the Virus Scanner is warned
anytime a file is touched and goes to check for changes and ends up slowing
down the entire works.
Regards,
Earnie.
--- Carl Thompson <cet@carlthompson.net> wrote:
> Frank Merenda wrote:
>
> > ...
>
> > there's loads more here, and I can't wait to use it all. but EVERY
> > tool that I start up starts extremely slowly. There's delays in every
> > command. I also notived that when I do a "ls" on a directory with a
> > lot of files there's a large delay, but the second time I do a "ls"
> > the files list quickly.
> >
> > can anyone help me with this? I would love to be able to move on to
> > the new version. Thanks in advance!
>
> I've noticed the same thing myself, but I believe it happens for any program
> you run, not just those that come with Cygwin. It's just more noticeable
> when programs are run from the bash prompt. Once a program is started,
> subsequent startups are reasonably fast.
>
> The interesting thing I've noticed is that it happens on only one of my two
> Windows 2000 machines. The are both identical recent installs of the OS and
> Cygwin. The only difference I can think of is that on the "slow" one I have
> installed VC++ 6.0 but on the "normal" I have not. Are you running VC++ or
> any other Microsoft development software?
>
> > Thanks,
> > Frank Merenda | Senior Software Engineer
>
> Carl Thompson
>
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