X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2009 14:40:59 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Optimize cygwin on recent windows version (Vista and Seven) Message-ID: <20090615184059.GC23085@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com References: <7c6dcbb9c797277cc8ffb1fc985844af AT mail DOT smartmobili DOT com> <416096c60906151139n45e0d967n8abee104fe194867 AT mail DOT gmail DOT com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <416096c60906151139n45e0d967n8abee104fe194867@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.19 (2009-01-05) Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: 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 On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 07:39:39PM +0100, Andy Koppe wrote: >> Until now I was using cygwin on Windows XP and I was satisfied by >> cygwin-1.7 but these last few days >> I switched to a more powerful laptop with very fast hardware (Core Duo 3.0 >> Ghz and SSD OCZ Vertex) >> and running windows Seven. >> Now when I test cygwin, everything is so sloooooowww > >Not exactly a helpful problem report. In what sort of scenarios do you >find it to be slow? Is it actually slower than your old system? > >One issue that I've noticed on Windows 7, both with Cygwin 1.5 and >1.7, is that trying to log a utmp entry when starting a terminal can >take up to half a minute, presumably due to waiting for some sort of >timeout. Sorry but this isn't a much more useful report. Do you have code which demonstrates the timeout? cgf -- 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/