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 Date: Sat, 18 Sep 2004 16:05:31 -0400 (EDT) From: Igor Pechtchanski Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com To: Bertalan Fodor cc: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Very annoying bash problem In-Reply-To: <414C08CF.1010004@freemail.hu> Message-ID: References: <414C08CF.1010004@freemail.hu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.39 On Sat, 18 Sep 2004, Bertalan Fodor wrote: > Hello, > > starting bash on my Windows XP computer (1GHz, 512MB) takes more than one > minute!!! It seems as it reads a lot of things from the hard disk, but it > writes nothing (as the free space doesn't change). It doesn't allocate memory > as well. This also happens on my Windows 2000 (1.8GHz, 512MB) after a fresh > install of cygwin, only it is not so much time. > It appeared some months ago. The previous cygwin versions hadn't had this > problem before. > > Bert How do you start bash? If you start a login shell, try a non-login instead, and see if it still exhibits this problem. The --noprofile and --norc flags should help you determine whether something in your startup files is the culprit. If it turns out that something in the startup files is causing the slowdown, the -v and -x flags should help. If bash itself is slow, there's always strace. Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ igor@watson.ibm.com |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "Happiness lies in being privileged to work hard for long hours in doing whatever you think is worth doing." -- Dr. Jubal Harshaw -- 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/