Message-ID: <4899F174.1020000@sbcglobal.net>
Date: Wed, 06 Aug 2008 18:46:12 +0000
From: Greg Chicares <gchicares@sbcglobal.net>
User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.16 (Windows/20080708)
MIME-Version: 1.0
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Cygwin 1.5.25 : Very slow command
References: <4899EC23.8030605@nc.rr.com>
In-Reply-To: <4899EC23.8030605@nc.rr.com>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm
Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com
Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com

On 2008-08-06 18:23Z, Burt Silverman wrote:
> Just confirming Bruno DeLoroux observation that cygwin starts very very 
> slowly on some Windows XP installations.  And "ls" is fairly slow.  My 
> Desktop PC is generally faster than my laptop, but the situation is 
> reversed with regards to these cygwin activities; startup is painful on 
> the Desktop.

Did you notice Dave Korn's reply posted 23 minutes after that
original article? You might get specific suggestions tailored
to your situation if you followed the procedure here:

> Problem reports:       http://cygwin.com/problems.html

It might be BLODA:

http://cygwin.com/faq/faq.using.html#faq.using.bloda


--
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/