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From: Marc Compere <comperem AT gmail DOT com>
Subject:  slow bash spawn
Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2007 13:27:31 +0000 (UTC)
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The recent setup.exe update has caused bash.exe to have startup times approx. 
10x longer than before.  sh.exe starts pretty quickly but bash.exe via 
cygwin.bat takes ~30 seconds to start.  Took just a couple of seconds before.  
Cpu is nowhere near pinned, hovering around 3% or 5%.

Each bash process spawn from within bash takes a long time as well 
making ./configure and make take a lot longer than before.

Similar problem here: http://www.nabble.com/Slow-compile-issue-with-cygwin-
make-since-v1.5.17-t3235008.html

Interestingly enough, sh.exe spawns relatively quickly.

Anyone else had similar problems or, more importantly, found a solution?

Running XP sp2 on a fresh, plain vanilla cygwin install.  antivirus is not the 
problem as bash started just fine on cygwin release just a few weeks ago.

TIA,
Marc


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