Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2009 14:40:59 -0400
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please@cygwin.com>
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Subject: Re: Optimize cygwin on recent windows version (Vista and Seven)
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On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 07:39:39PM +0100, Andy Koppe wrote:
>> Until now I was using cygwin on Windows XP and I was satisfied by
>> cygwin-1.7 but these last few days
>> I switched to a more powerful laptop with very fast hardware (Core Duo 3.0
>> Ghz and SSD OCZ Vertex)
>> and running windows Seven.
>> Now when I test cygwin, everything is so sloooooowww
>
>Not exactly a helpful problem report. In what sort of scenarios do you
>find it to be slow? Is it actually slower than your old system?
>
>One issue that I've noticed on Windows 7, both with Cygwin 1.5 and
>1.7, is that trying to log a utmp entry when starting a terminal can
>take up to half a minute, presumably due to waiting for some sort of
>timeout.

Sorry but this isn't a much more useful report.

Do you have code which demonstrates the timeout?

cgf

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