X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.2 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,RCVD_NUMERIC_HELO,SPF_HELO_PASS,SPF_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: Gene Smith Subject: Re: Slow/sluggish response ("system" task at 50%) Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2009 00:25:26 -0400 Lines: 20 Message-ID: References: <4A3FCCBD.70101@cygwin.com> <4A401CF4.6050202@cygwin.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1b3pre) Gecko/20090513 Fedora/3.0-2.3.beta2.fc11 Thunderbird/3.0b2 In-Reply-To: <4A401CF4.6050202@cygwin.com> X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: 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 Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote, On 06/22/2009 08:08 PM: > > There's also 1.7 - > 1.7 seems to fix it. It now takes 34 seconds as compared to 14 minutes with cygwin-1.5. (But I suspect that a fresh install of 1.5 might produce similar or better results.) At some point, 1.5 started getting slow for me. I don't know (yet) what caused it. I still have the conflict with winavr using 1.7 so I don't think that is it. Someone on a list mention about "home directory" affecting cygwin speed. I do notice that on 1.7-beta $HOME is /home/smited (under c:\cygwin-1.7\). While on my 1.5 $HOME is /cygdrive/c/Documents and Settings/smited. Somehow 1.5 points $HOME to the existing windows "home" while 1.7 points $HOME to a new and almost empty directory under c:\cygwin-1.7. Does this matter at all? -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple