X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.9 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM,KAM_THEBAT,KHOP_SPAMHAUS_DROP,KHOP_THREADED,SPF_SOFTFAIL X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2012 14:04:50 +0400 From: Andrey Repin Reply-To: Andrey Repin Message-ID: <21648659.20121002140450@mtu-net.ru> To: Adam Kessel , cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: bash very slow in cygwin 1.7.16-1 Win7/64 bit In-Reply-To: References: <5068AEF2.6040006@rosi-kessel.org> <5069BE59.5030303@malth.us> <5069C743.5090908@cornell.edu> <5069D273.6060507@cornell.edu> <5069D7CA.6070902@cornell.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 Greetings, Adam Kessel! > On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 9:59 PM, Adam Kessel wrote: >> Now I'm really confused. >> >> cygwin was very slow -- then I killed Dropbox, and it sped back up. >> But after a while it reverted to slow again (without Dropbox >> restarting). I've repeated this behavior with a few other tasks--same >> thing happened with Google Desktop and Skydrive. I'm not sure it >> actually matters which task I kill -- but killing them will speed >> things up for a bit and then it seems to revert to very slow again, >> even if the tasks aren't restarted. >> >> Can anyone offer a way to narrow/isolate the cause here? Is the above >> behavior consistent with any hypothesis? > Was running very slowly; just closed Google Chrome and it got fast > again. Then re-opened Chrome and slow again. So it really doesn't seem > to matter what program it is. This suggest that you're looking into wrong direction, and real culprit is something you didn't caught yet. Try HijackThis http://sourceforge.net/projects/hjt/ to see if there's any suspicious handlers installed in your system. Or you may send the logfile to me (off-list!) and I'll try to look for clues myself. -- WBR, Andrey Repin (anrdaemon@freemail.ru) 02.10.2012, <13:53> Sorry for my terrible english... -- 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