X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.3 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,FREEMAIL_FROM,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <4ED7A60F.7010601@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 01 Dec 2011 17:06:39 +0100 From: marco atzeri User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:8.0) Gecko/20111105 Thunderbird/8.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Cygwin slow on x64 systems? References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 On 12/1/2011 4:58 PM, Tim McDaniel wrote: > I wrote: >> $ time echo hello >> hello >> >> real 0m0.000s >> user 0m0.000s >> sys 0m0.000s >> >> $ cp /dev/null frog >> $ time cat frog >> >> real 0m1.259s >> user 0m0.000s >> sys 0m0.015s > > Someone replied directly to me, to say that Cygwin should not be that > slow on 64-bit installations. He asked whether I have anti-virus > installed, and whether I have looked at the "BLODA list". > > BLODA is the Big List Of Dodgy Apps, apparently from > http://cygwin.com/faq/faq.using.html#faq.using.bloda > > 44. What applications have been found to interfere with Cygwin? > > From time to time, people have reported strange failures and > problems in Cygwin and Cygwin packages that seem to have no > rational explanation .... > > Unfortunately, "Norton/McAfee/Symantec antivirus or antispyware" is > the second item listed. This is a work machine. IT installed > Symantec Endpoint Protection on it and locked down absolutely every > setting whatsoever (except for how long to keep local logs). I really > doubt that they'd unlock anything for me, especially because I'm brand > new and we don't do very much on Windows. > > Unless someone has another suggestion, maybe I just have to assume I'm > SOL. > FYI, I am running a W7/64 with Symantec Endpoint Protection (11.0.6200.754) installed and I have no particular speed issue, but I am running a very recent snapshot Regards Marco -- 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