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 Message-ID: <433B9DAB.8E5E1BAD@dessent.net> Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2005 00:54:19 -0700 From: Brian Dessent MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Cygwin Load Times and ZoneAlarm (not X) References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Anthony Foglia wrote: > Has anyone else experienced long load times for bash/cygwin.bat > when running ZoneAlarm Security Suite? And if so, do you have any ideas > how to speed it up? With ZoneAlarm shut down, I get a bash prompt in > under 2 seconds. With ZoneAlarm running, it takes over a full minute. Horrible. That's a perfect example of why I can't stand these software firewalls that put their hooks throughout the whole system. Try disabling all the real-time scanning stuff. > I believe it is the "On-Access" virus scanning. Are other virus > scanners as bad? What software do people recommend for firewall and virus > protection to use with cygwin? You might be interested in the thread that starts here: Brian -- 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/