Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: Rolf Campbell Subject: Re: cygwin too slow Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2003 09:33:33 -0500 Lines: 37 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.5b) Gecko/20030901 Thunderbird/0.2 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en In-Reply-To: http://cygwin.com/problems.html koorapati, koundinya wrote: > Hey Cygwin users, > After using UNIX desktops for nearly seven years now, I'm forced to use > a windows desktop. Since I knew a thing like cygwin existed, I installed the > complete set of packages and I was thrilled. But simple commands like ls > take this time > > $ time ls -l > total 23 > drwxr-xr-x 1 kkoorapa mkgroup- 0 Nov 11 17:50 Mail > -rw-r--r-- 1 kkoorapa mkgroup- 39 Nov 10 17:42 t.c > -rwxr-xr-x 1 kkoorapa mkgroup- 11224 Nov 10 17:40 t.exe > -rwxr-xr-x 1 kkoorapa mkgroup- 11224 Nov 10 17:43 tt.exe > > real 0m18.115s > user 0m0.020s > sys 0m0.010s > > Likewise any utility I try to use like vi, emacs etc just take really long. > I'm not sure how I could debug this. I did try to use strace etc, but got > no clues. Searching the archives also did not help me. BTW, I use Win 2000 > Pro on a DELL Box with 512MB RAM and at this time, top shows this: > > 18:18:11 up 7:57, 0 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 > 7 processes: 6 sleeping, 1 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped > CPU states: 0.2% user, 1.2% system, 0.0% nice, 98.6% idle > Mem: 522228K total, 210788K used, 311440K free, 0K buffers > Swap: 753248K total, 276720K used, 476528K free, 0K cached > > Thanks for any help ! > > Koundinya > > -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/