X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-4.7 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,FREEMAIL_FROM,KHOP_RCVD_TRUST,KHOP_THREADED,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,RCVD_IN_HOSTKARMA_YE X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <5069C743.5090908@cornell.edu> References: <5068AEF2.6040006@rosi-kessel.org> <5069BE59.5030303@malth.us> <5069C743.5090908@cornell.edu> Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2012 12:55:44 -0400 Message-ID: Subject: Re: bash very slow in cygwin 1.7.16-1 Win7/64 bit From: Adam Kessel To: cygwin@cygwin.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 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 On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 12:39 PM, Ken Brown wrote: >>> Did you at least try chainging your ${HOME} to somewhere normal and >>> seeing >>> what happens? Perhaps SkyDrive has some feature that makes Cygwin crazy. >>> For example, your cygwin could have inotify listeners on ${HOME} which >>> could >> Yeah, I tried setting ${HOME} to /cygdrive/c and "c:\" and even just >> "/" with no change in results. > I don't know if this has anything to do with your problem, but I wouldn't > call any of these settings of $HOME "normal". I think most people leave > $HOME unset, in which case it gets set to /home/username during a Cygwin > session. At least in my experience, standard cygwin install doesn't create anything under /home. But, yes, I've also unset $HOME. No difference. I also tried a brand new install into a new directory with default settings, both of 1.7 and legacy 1.5. Still no difference (1.5 is actually even slower). -- 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