Cygwin slow on x64 systems?

[Tim McDaniel]

On Thu, 8 Dec 2011, Marco Moreno wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 11:46 AM, Tim McDaniel wrote:

(You quoted my e-mail address there, which may get you dinged by the
admins, but I'm cool with my e-mail addy going out -- I put it in my
sig and all.)

>> After uninstalling Symantec Endpoint Protection (no changes to
>> Superfetch or PCA Service):
>>
>> $ time echo hi | read x
>>
>> real 0m0.093s
>> user 0m0.000s
>> sys  0m0.061s
>>
>> Unfortunately, now I'm required to reinstall.
>
> Any chance they will allow you to add a "User defined exception" (in
> Centralized Exceptions) to exclude your cygwin folder?  That works
> for me.

After reinstalling:

$ time echo hi | read x

real    0m0.094s
user    0m0.015s
sys     0m0.046s

WHOHOO!

Now the X server won't start ...

-- 
Tim McDaniel, tmcd@panix.com

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