Very slow Cygwin startup on Windows 7

[Andrey Repin]

Greetings, Corinna Vinschen!

> On Feb 13 03:34, Andrey Repin wrote:
>> Greetings, Corinna Vinschen!
>> 
>> >> [...]
>> >> If you are accepting suggestions, and up for some experimentation, try this:
>> >> 
>> >> # getent passwd $(id -u) > /etc/passwd
>> >> # getent group $(id -G) > /etc/group
>> >> # echo -e "#\npasswd: files db\ngroup: files db\n" > /etc/nsswitch.conf
>> >> 
>> >> and start bash without cygserver running. Just for test.
>> >> The idea is to have "your" groups in files so that in simple case of (just
>> >> startup" Cygwin don't have to talk to DC all too much. If at all.
>> >> 
>> >> You'd still need to run cygserver to benefit from long-time caching, though.
>> 
>> > Do you feel up to the task to extend the FAQ entry
>> 
>> > https://cygwin.com/faq/faq.html#faq.using.startup-slow
>> 
>> > with a description of your solution?
>> 
>> I took a liberty to reorder and rewrite it a little.
>> Please tell me, if I didn't lost anything in the process.

> It reads nicely.  The paragraph starting with "The 1.7.35 release is
> expected..." needs a tweak as soon as 1.7.35 goes release, of course,
> but otherwise it's really neat.

> The problem is this:  The source of the file is not in HTML but in XML,
> see https://sourceware.org/viewvc/src/winsup/doc/faq-setup.xml?view=log

> Any problem to rework for XML and sending as unified patch against the
> latest version of the file from CVS?

That was my next question :)
I'll see what can be done.
It may take bit of time. A day or two. I've got a workload to push away
first. Sorry for inconvenience.


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WBR,
Andrey Repin (anrdaemon@yandex.ru) 13.02.2015, <13:16>

Sorry for my terrible english...


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