X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: i="4.13,268,1167638400"; d="scan'208"; a="41965705:sNHT18490392" Content-class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Subject: cygwin/fork slowness due to UNCs in PATH Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2007 08:53:36 -0800 Message-ID: From: "Song, Conrad W" To: Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Id: 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 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id l11Grp61001649 Just a quick comment.  I've been a long user of cygwin, and until recently noticed that cygwin was running extremely slow (it would take several seconds to fork off a command).  After debugging a while, it turns out that I had added UNC (\\ style windows) paths to my system PATH environment variable.  The removal of these (maybe slow network drives) from the PATH (or disconnection from the network) solved the problem for me.  Perhaps further investigation is warranted.  Thanks. -- 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/