Mail Archives: cygwin/2003/04/15/17:16:24
Matt,
On Tue, 15 Apr 2003, Matthew W. Roberts wrote:
> > What OS are you running?
> Windows 2000 Professional Ver 5.0 Build 2195 Service Pack 3
>
> > Which version of Cygwin did you have before?
> Sorry, but I can't remember. It's been a couple of months or so
> since I last updated. There were quite a few packages that
> upgraded.
FYI, you can look in /var/log/setup.log -- it keeps track of every setup
invocation and is appended. For the details of the last upgrade, see
/var/log/setup.log.full
> > Where is the "cygcheck -svr" output?
>
> Attached, as requested. I used mutt to attach, hopefully it did it
> right.
>
> > What are the symptoms/triggers of the slowdown -- is it just
> > "perceived" slowness, or do you have the timings?
>
> Unfortunately, I don't have any timings -- the slowness is "perceived".
>
> One example: I've a shell script that scans a mailbox for Subject:
> and From: lines and prints them:
>
> #!/bin/sh
>
> # Need a command line argument: the file name to scan
> [ $# -gt 0 ] || exit
>
> test -s $1 && (printf "\nMail in $1:\n\n"; grep ^From: $1; echo "---"; grep ^Subject: $1)
> # END SCRIPT
>
> It was fairly slow before (slower than on Linux, anyway). Now there
> is a noticeable (3-4 second) delay after it prints out before I get
> back to the command line.
>
> That seems to be the general theme. Much longer startup and exit
> times for programs. They aren't noticeably slower when I use them,
> they just take a lot longer to start up and to dump me back to the
> command line.
You could use the "strace" utility to see where the delays are... Also,
see if you have network paths in your PATH, as mentioned in
<http://cygwin.com/faq/faq.html#SEC33>.
Hope this helps,
Igor
> Thanks for your attention,
> Matt
>
> >On Mon, 14 Apr 2003, Matthew W. Roberts wrote:
>
> >> A couple of days ago I upgraded my cygwin installation using
> >> setup.exe. I also upgraded setup.exe. Now, *everything* seems to
> >> be much slower from sh scripts, to perl programs, to Mutt, to Vim.
> >> I also saw the islower() entry point warnings reported by others.
>
> >> Anyone else experience this?
>
> >> Thanks,
> >> Matthew W. Roberts
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