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Subject: RE:  slow bash spawn
Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2007 08:57:13 -0500
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Marc Compere wrote on Sunday, March 18, 2007 8:28 AM:
> 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.

Just a WAG, but do you have any network shares or network drives in your
path? (see  http://cygwin.com/faq/faq.using.html#faq.using.slow)

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Bryan Thrall
FlightSafety International
Bryan DOT Thrall AT flightsafety DOT com

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