X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.4 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SPF_HELO_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <4A405B7D.7020700@cygwin.com> Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2009 00:35:09 -0400 From: "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.21) Gecko/20090320 Remi/2.0.0.21-1.fc8.remi Lightning/0.9 Thunderbird/2.0.0.21 Mnenhy/0.7.5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Slow/sluggish response ("system" task at 50%) References: <4A3FCCBD DOT 70101 AT cygwin DOT com> <4A401CF4 DOT 6050202 AT cygwin DOT com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 Gene Smith wrote: > Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote, On 06/22/2009 08:08 PM: >> >> There's also 1.7 - >> > > 1.7 seems to fix it. It now takes 34 seconds as compared to 14 minutes > with cygwin-1.5. (But I suspect that a fresh install of 1.5 might > produce similar or better results.) > > At some point, 1.5 started getting slow for me. I don't know (yet) what > caused it. I still have the conflict with winavr using 1.7 so I don't > think that is it. > > Someone on a list mention about "home directory" affecting cygwin speed. > I do notice that on 1.7-beta $HOME is /home/smited (under > c:\cygwin-1.7\). While on my 1.5 $HOME is /cygdrive/c/Documents and > Settings/smited. Somehow 1.5 points $HOME to the existing windows "home" > while 1.7 points $HOME to a new and almost empty directory under > c:\cygwin-1.7. Does this matter at all? Depends on how much "cruft" has built up in your "Windows" home directory. While this does get pretty "trashy" IMO, I don't think the typical build-up of Windows junk there would seriously impact performance, unless this somehow became a network directory reference at some point. And I think if just pointing at the home directory Windows uses were a general issue, we'd hear allot more about it on this list. But I can't say for sure something in your case isn't causing the problem you were seeing. I suppose if you're real curious about it, you can try pointing your new 1.7 install to it and see if things revert to the nostalgic slow-boat that you've become accustomed to. ;-) -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 216 Dalton Rd. (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 _____________________________________________________________________ A: Yes. > Q: Are you sure? >> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. >>> Q: Why is top posting annoying in email? -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple