FAQ 4.2 Why is Cygwin suddenly so slow?

[marco atzeri]

On 12/21/2011 1:43 PM, efa@iol.it wrote:
> My Cygwin installation use about 1 s per shell command.
> For example:
> $ time env
> HOMEPATH=\Docume
> ...
> COMPUTERNAME=MES
> real    0m1.075s
> user    0m0.030s
> sys     0m0.015s
>
> $ time time
> Usage: time [-apvV] [-f format] [-o file] [--append] [--verbose]
>         [--portability] [--format=format] [--output=file] [--version]
>         [--help] command [arg...]
> real    0m1.033s
> user    0m0.030s
> sys     0m0.030s
>
> It is evident to me, that the command is immediately executed at the right
> speed, then a second is spent before return back to the shell prompt.
> Happen with those shell:
> - bash
> - xterm
> - mintty
>
> Script execution is very slow.
>
> I tried some of the suggested solutions found googling:
> - deinstalled bash completion
> - set the path to /bin only
> - stopping all unnecessary Windows services
> no difference.
>
> I also tried to completely remove Cygwin and reinstall 1.7.9. Same results.
>
> Other suggestions? What other check I must do?
>

antivirus ?
http://cygwin.com/faq/faq.using.html#faq.using.bloda

> thank you in advance,
> Valerio
>

Regards
Marco



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