Mail Archives: cygwin/2000/06/22/09:42:37
--- "Stucky, Mark B. UTRC" <StuckyMB AT utrc DOT utc DOT com> wrote:
>
> I've been using the b20 version on my machine at home (Win98) for about
> a year now. Generally everything was working just fine, but sometime in
> the last month (or two) I started noticing that the whole system would
> "slow" down and become sluggish whenever I was compiling. For example,
> after starting a make in an rxvt window, the mouse would then be very
> slow to respond.
>
Do you have a Virus Scanner running? Do/did you update the virus database?
All of the slow downs I've noticed happen because the Virus Scanner is running.
Also, were you using snapshots with b20?
> Thinking that upgrading to the latest version might help, I installed
> the 1.1.2 version last week. However, I still see the same behavior
> with the new version. Last night I noticed that the system clock also
> seems to be running slow, but I haven't verified that this behavior
> is related to cygwin.
>
Try disableing the Virus Scanner and see if that helps.
> I know that I should probably include some "cygcheck" output and
> probably some other info (that I just can't think of at the moment),
> but I'm posting this from work...
>
May have helped, however you can also look at it yourself and search the
archives for responses I've made to the cygcheck output of others.
Cheers,
=====
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Earnie Boyd: <mailto:earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com>
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