emacs-x11 takes 30-40 sec to open after upgrading to cygwin-1.7

Ken Brown kbrown@cornell.edu
Mon Mar 29 15:03:00 GMT 2010


On 3/29/2010 6:33 AM, Dan Tsafrir wrote:
> Hi,
>
> After I've upgraded to cygwin-1.7 my emacs takes 30-40 seconds to
> open. Following
> http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/cygwin-x-faq.html#poor-performance,
> disabling my antivirus has no affect on emacs's opening time. As far
> as I can tell other X programs behave similarly to the way they did
> before the upgrade. Any help would be appreciated. The output of
> 'cygcheck -s -v -r' is attached.

Does this happen only when you start emacs under X11?  If so, the 
discussion probably belongs on the cygwin-xfree list.

Have you tried starting emacs with the -Q option?  This will eliminate 
the effects of your customizations (.emacs, .Xdefaults, etc.).

Ken

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