X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <491C5A01.4020505@bmts.com> Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2008 11:46:57 -0500 From: Ralph Hempel User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (X11/20071022) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Cygwin suddenly prohibitively slow (conflicts?) References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-brucetelecom.com-MailScanner-Information: Please contact Bruce Telecom 519.368.2000 for more information X-brucetelecom.com-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-brucetelecom.com-MailScanner-From: rhempel@bmts.com X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Id: 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 Barnhart, Robert M. wrote: > I suspect a couple of things that might be affecting cygwin since yesterday: > > 1) I installed VMware Player 2.5.0 build-118166, but have not run it yet. > 2) I loaded a VM image of about ~30GB onto my hard drive, but did not execute it. > 3) Our company (SAIC) may be remotely installing Windows services, patches or even software IAW company policies. I can't necessarily tell when this is happening. > > Are there any known problems with VMware and cygwin? I'm using XP SP3 as my "host" machine and use vmWare Desktop (not player) to run lots of other OSen. I do this to keep my host machine clean and I have only 3 or 4 apps like an editor and 7-zip running on the host machine. I have a Cygwin 1.7 installation that lives on a USB key that I use on the host machine occasionally. It works fine but then again I have not updated it since last week. I doubt that vmWare has much to do with this, but you might want to see if there's any new anti-virus stuff running that could be "checking" your files when they are being loaded... Ralph -- 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/