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From: Scott Atwood <atwood AT CS DOT Stanford DOT EDU>
Message-Id: <200110261829.LAA27841@Xenon.Stanford.EDU>
Subject: Re: 30 second startup delay on Cygwin programs from SYSTEM
To: lhall AT rfk DOT com ("Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)")
Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2001 11:29:17 -0700 (PDT)
Cc: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
In-Reply-To: <4.3.1.2.20011026093939.01821548@pop.ma.ultranet.com> from "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" at Oct 26, 2001 09:46:50 AM
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"Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" writes:
> 
> FAQ entry
> 
> Why is Cygwin suddenly so slow?
> http://www.cygwin.com/faq/faq_4.html#SEC32
> 
> is a good hint.  Focus on the fact that network shares (or drives) in the
> path are an issue, not necessarily the recent change that makes the now
> obsolete //X drive syntax equivalent to a network path.  While this may be 
> your problem, references to network directories in your path is a timeless
> issue that can account for the behavior you describe.  There are multiple
> posts about this in the mail archives, although they are likely to be 
> buried fairly far back in the archives and may be difficult to unearth 
> if you don't happen to hit a keyword used in those messages. ;-)

I don't think the //X drive syntax is the problem here.  This is a new
installation, so I can't compare to previous versions of the Cygwin DLL,
but the %PATH% of the SYSTEM account doesn't contain any network drives:

C:\WINNT\system32;C:\WINNT;C:\WINNT\System32\Wbem;C:\Program Files\Symantec\pcAnywhere\;C:\Program Files\Common Files\Network Associates\VirusScan Engine\4.0.xx\;C:\cygwin\bin

-Scott

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