cygwin too slow

[Rolf Campbell]

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koorapati, koundinya wrote:
> Hey Cygwin users,
>      After using UNIX desktops for nearly seven years now, I'm forced to use
> a windows desktop. Since I knew a thing like cygwin existed, I installed the
> complete set of packages and I was thrilled. But simple commands like ls
> take this time
> 
> $ time ls -l
> total 23
> drwxr-xr-x    1 kkoorapa mkgroup-        0 Nov 11 17:50 Mail
> -rw-r--r--    1 kkoorapa mkgroup-       39 Nov 10 17:42 t.c
> -rwxr-xr-x    1 kkoorapa mkgroup-    11224 Nov 10 17:40 t.exe
> -rwxr-xr-x    1 kkoorapa mkgroup-    11224 Nov 10 17:43 tt.exe
> 
> real    0m18.115s
> user    0m0.020s
> sys     0m0.010s
> 
> Likewise any utility I try to use like vi, emacs etc just take really long.
> I'm not sure how  I could debug this. I did try to use strace etc, but got
> no clues. Searching the archives also did not help me. BTW, I use Win 2000
> Pro on a DELL Box with 512MB RAM and at this time, top shows this:
> 
>  18:18:11 up  7:57,  0 users,  load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
> 7 processes: 6 sleeping, 1 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped
> CPU states:   0.2% user,   1.2% system,   0.0% nice,  98.6% idle
> Mem:    522228K total,   210788K used,   311440K free,        0K buffers
> Swap:   753248K total,   276720K used,   476528K free,        0K cached
> 
> Thanks for any help !
> 
> Koundinya
> 
> 



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