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Re: Cygwin extremely slow after updating from 1.5.1 to 1.7.5


Use "strace ls" and "strace -t ls" and attach the output first.

2010/7/12 Jet Thompson <jet@whidbey.com>
>
> It is now taking over 30 seconds for bash to come up,
> whereas in 1.5 it would take 1-2 seconds.
>
> Doing an ls of my ~ directory takes 5 seconds.
>
> Running a cucumber test takes 5-6 minutes.
>
> Any idea what could be causing this?
>
> At this point, I can not use Cygwin for development.
> Not feasible to use such a slow environment.
>
> Hope someone may have some good ideas.
> I am using an older XP machine, but still it is
> dual 2.8 Xeon processors, 800MHz bus, 7200rpm
> sata hard drive with 8MB cache. It is painful
> to see such dismal performance.
>
> Cheers,
>
> ? Jet
>
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