From: gwatts AT fnal DOT gov (Gordon Watts Brown University) Subject: Long startup times in b19 7 Mar 1998 16:47:19 -0800 Message-ID: <01IUAZLN3HEC0000AJ.cygnus.gnu-win32@FNAL.FNAL.GOV> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: gnu-win cygnus mailing list Hi, I, too, am observing very long startup times for bash. I spent a little time characterizing them. - bash shell startup takes on the order of 20 or 30 seconds. - running mount from the command line takes 20 or 30 seconds. - if another bash shell is already running, startup is less than one second, as does the mount from DOS. Looks like the time is spent in the dll startup code?? - startup time is not affected if I remove all my mount points from the registry - startup time is not affected if I remove my .bashrc files - I do not have a local hosts file (a previous email referred to this): who just fails right away when I run it. - I set my PATH variable to include only the bin area of the b19 distribution (it contains a lot of over-the-net entries), and that did not have an effect. - CPU time is almost zero during this time. No page faults either. Looking with the performance monitor does not indicates kernel cpu time is less than 5% (so I doubt it is trying to relocated the dll or something like that). I figure something is busted in my configuration, so it is only a matter of figureing out what! From here I'm stuck; the next logical thing is to attempt to debug this thing... Where is a good place to start? BTW, once a single bash shell is started, then things go very quickly. Cheers, Gordon. - 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".