cygwin (pipes?) VERY slow on Windows Server 2003 / AMD Athlon 64

[Peter van Heusden]

Hi all

I've been trying to understand why startup and certain commands of my
cygwin installation are very slow, and it seems to come down to the
pipes. For instance, this command:

$ time cat /etc/motd |cat
Fanfare!!!
You are successfully logged in to this server!!!

real    0m9.744s
user    0m0.000s
sys     0m0.000s

takes nearly 10 seconds! 'ls -l |sort' takes 9.76 seconds. Another contrast:
sort /etc/profile: 0.019 seconds. cat /etc/profile: 0.020 seconds. cat
/etc/profile | sort: 40.5 seconds!

Does anyone have any clues as to what could be causing this? The cygwin
I'm using is the latest installed from the mirror at ftp://ftp.is.co.za.
Output of cygcheck -s -v -r attached.

Thanks,
Peter

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