Mail Archives: cygwin/2006/05/12/09:05:24
Don Edvalson wrote:
> Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> Right. Starting from the beginning and looking at the simplest/most
>> common
>> potential causes makes the most sense. And providing as much detail as
>> possible about what's going on is a good idea as well. However, if
>> the more
>> obvious solutions don't help, then you might want to consider this
>> option:
>>
>> <http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2005-09/msg00945.html>
>>
>
> Larry,
>
> I tried the solution mentioned above, but it didn't help. However it
> did put me on the right track. I started carefully killing Windows
> processes. After I had killed enough of them, Cygwin started working
> perfectly again and I could do my compiles. So I think I was looking
> in the wrong direction with rebase in the first place. I am still
> narrowing it down, but I found that two pieces of hardware I had added
> lately, a webcam and a Sprint Wireless network connection were running
> lots of processes all the time, even when that hardware was not
> installed or running. I believe the culprit is one of these. When I
> figure out exactly what process was causing this, I will let you know.
You also can try to prevent certain services to be started - for example
for the not installed hardware by using the
msconfig
Utility which comes with windoze but - of course - is not documented but
works well. You can execute it with Start->Run->msconfig
The advantage is you don't have to kill the processes just unmark them
and they won't get started. If you need them just mark them again. The
drawback is - you have to reboot. But on the other hand it can speed up
Windoze and saves memory because not loading a lot of Plug-and-pray
drivers waiting for some hardware to be connected.
Alex
>
> Thanks for the help.
>
> Don
>
>
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