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From: Frank Merenda <FMerenda AT vetexchange DOT com>
To: earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com, Carl Thompson <cet AT carlthompson DOT net>,
        Frank Merenda <FMerenda AT vetexchange DOT com>
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Subject: RE: all commands start up sloooooow......
Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2000 11:44:21 -0400
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that also helped more, thanks!
setting my CYGWIN variable also helped a lot. 

thanks everyone for your help!

Thanks,
Frank Merenda | Senior Software Engineer
VetExchange   | http://www.VetExchange.com 
fmerenda AT VetExchange DOT com

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Earnie Boyd [mailto:earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com]
> Sent: Friday, June 16, 2000 9:50 AM
> To: Carl Thompson; Frank Merenda
> Cc: Cygwin List
> Subject: Re: all commands start up sloooooow......
> 
> 
> What I've noticed on this issue is that if I disable the 
> Virus Scanner speed
> improves at an unbelievable amount.  WITIH is that the Virus 
> Scanner is warned
> anytime a file is touched and goes to check for changes and 
> ends up slowing
> down the entire works.
> 
> Regards,
> Earnie.
> --- Carl Thompson <cet AT carlthompson DOT net> wrote:
> > Frank Merenda wrote:
> > 
> > > ...
> > 
> > > there's loads more here, and I can't wait to use it all. but EVERY
> > > tool that I start up starts extremely slowly. There's 
> delays in every
> > > command. I also notived that when I do a "ls" on a 
> directory with a
> > > lot of files there's  a large delay, but the second time 
> I do a "ls"
> > > the files list quickly.
> > > 
> > > can anyone help me with this? I would love to be able to 
> move on to
> > > the new version. Thanks in advance!
> > 
> > I've noticed the same thing myself, but I believe it 
> happens for any program
> > you run, not just those that come with Cygwin.  It's just 
> more noticeable
> > when programs are run from the bash prompt.  Once a program 
> is started,
> > subsequent startups are reasonably fast.
> > 
> > The interesting thing I've noticed is that it happens on 
> only one of my two
> > Windows 2000 machines.  The are both identical recent 
> installs of the OS and
> > Cygwin.  The only difference I can think of is that on the 
> "slow" one I have
> > installed VC++ 6.0 but on the "normal" I have not.  Are you 
> running VC++ or
> > any other Microsoft development software?
> > 
> > > Thanks,
> > > Frank Merenda | Senior Software Engineer
> > 
> > Carl Thompson
> > 
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