From: ikohn AT vertex DOT ucls DOT uchicago DOT edu (Isaac Kohn) Subject: Re: your mail 26 Jan 1998 22:27:31 -0800 Message-ID: References: <98Jan26 DOT 100940est DOT 26881 AT firewall DOT mastech DOT com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com > I found that bash is very slow. Whenever I type a command, which is not existing, I have to wait for nearly 3 minutes to get > the message 'command not found'. > Do I need to change my system settings to improve the performance of bash? Mine is slow, but not nearly that slow -- about 1-2 seconds. You ought to check if you have a long path, if your path is very long then bash has to search every directory for the executable before concluding that it cannot find it. Also (this is pure speculation) command execution in that way may utilize a fork, which is slightly slow in the gnuwin32 implementation. Nevertheless, it should not take more than several seconds... Good luck, Isaac Kohn - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help".