Re: Executing commands is VERY slow when logged into an NT domain....

[Christopher Faylor <cgf at redhat dot com>]

On Wed, Jun 26, 2002 at 10:36:19PM -0700, Rick Rankin wrote:
>
>--- Christopher Faylor <cgf@redhat.com> wrote:
>> Out of curiousity, does mounting your /bin and /usr/bin directories with the
>> -X
>> option "fix" anything?
>> 
>> mount -f -b -X c:/cygwin/bin /bin
>> mount -f -b -X c:/cygwin/bin /usr/bin
>> 
>> where c:\cygwin is the location of your root, of course.
>
>It turns out that the -X option does help quite a bit. Here are some rough
>results based on using a stopwatch to time the interval from when I
>double-click the bash icon on my desktop until I see a prompt:
>
>20020626 snapshot,   no -X: 25.2 sec
>20020626 snapshot, with -X:  6.7 sec
>1.3.10-1,            no -X:  2.1 sec
>
>I didn't retry the 0625 snapshot, but it ran about the same speed without the 
>-X option.
>
>Does that narrow things down any?

Some, but it is still mystifying.  I would have expected -X to actually completely
mask the problem.  There are some more changes in CVS.  I'll regen a snapshot as
soon as Corinna checks in her latest change.

cgf

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