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Re: slow startup after upgrade
- From: Andrey Repin <anrdaemon at yandex dot ru>
- To: Corinna Vinschen <cygwin at cygwin dot com>, cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2015 00:42:22 +0300
- Subject: Re: slow startup after upgrade
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Greetings, Corinna Vinschen!
>> > Works very quickly for me. Problem is, I don't know anything about
>> > your environment. Are you working remote or in an office? How many
>> > groups are in your user token? What is the result of this funny
>> > little statement Dennis created:
>> >
>> > cmd /v:on /c "echo !TIME! & C:\cygwin64\bin\mintty.exe /bin/echo "test" & echo !TIME!"
>>
>> On win7: that command takes .17, .44, .48, .53 sec between 1st & 2nd time stamp
>>
>> That had 'db' only for passwd/group in nsswitch.conf, no cygwin procs
>> running including cygserver.
> Sounds good to me.
>> On problematic winxp box:
>> [passwd, group, db_shell: 'files db', 'files db' & /bin/dash]
>> 16.83, 17.03, 24.80, 28.79, 27.99, 27.39 sec
>>
>> [passwd, group, db_shell: db, db & /bin/dash]
>> 23.51, 27.91, 28.78 sec
> Doesn't sound good at all. Terrible in fact. That a 32 or 64 bit XP?
> I didn't fire up my XP test machines for ages and I'm not overly enjoying
> it, but I guess I have to. Oh well, hang on...
> [...time passes...]
> [...starting up...]
> [...XP...]
> [...32 bit...]
> [...updating...]
> [...testing...]
> Hmm, no. In my case there's no visible delay starting mintty, and tcsh
> is my login shell, too. mkpasswd and mkgroup are running comparably
> fast as on my W8.1 64 bit machine I'm using for testing in the first
> place.
> Something strange is going on on your XP machine, it seems.
Although I've migrated to Win7, I'm still using XP systems extensively, many
of them have Cygwin, and I didn't see anything even remotely close to his
results, ever.
His messages basically left me speechless, I was afraid to guess.
The half a minute startup of a shell, I could only attribute to environmental
issues.
--
WBR,
Andrey Repin (anrdaemon@yandex.ru) 26.02.2015, <00:40>
Sorry for my terrible english...
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