Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Reply-To: Cygwin List Message-Id: <6.2.0.14.0.20041209222906.05298eb8@pop.prospeed.net> Date: Thu, 09 Dec 2004 22:35:15 -0500 To: "Ben Wing" , From: Larry Hall Subject: Re: Weird interaction between Visual C++ and Cygwin In-Reply-To: <00c701c4de65$98db5270$210110ac@NEEEEEEE> References: <00c701c4de65$98db5270$210110ac AT NEEEEEEE> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" At 10:09 PM 12/9/2004, you wrote: >If any Cygwin program is running, e.g. a compilation, Visual C++ takes an >incredibly long time to start up. This has been the case for me for years. >Does anyone know if there is some sort of locking contention here? Are you talking about MSDEV 6 or 7 (.NET)? Does "any" Cygwin program include bash and/or any services? I run Cygwin bash and service all the time. The only time I find MSDEV takes any time to start up is with version 6 and a large number of projects and source files. This has to do with MSDEVs processing of the "convenience" project-related files it leaves around (.ncb, etc). It has nothing to do with Cygwin. Stopping MSDEV, removing these files, and reopening MSDEV with the same workspace makes a world of difference. At the last client where I saw with problem, this could make opening MSDEV on their workspace go from 20 minutes to 20 seconds. Everyone there had this problem, with or without Cygwin. Perhaps you're having another problem though... -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 838 Washington Street (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/