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Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2010 19:24:21 +0100
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Subject: Re: Bash login slow after upgrade to cygwin 1.7
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On 20 August 2010 18:20, Nahor wrote:
> =C2=A0On 2010-08-20 7:50, Jeremy Ramer wrote:
>>
>> After upgrading from cygwin 1.5 to cygwin 1.7 starting a bash shell is
>> much slower. =C2=A0It usually takes around 4 seconds before I get a prom=
pt.
>> =C2=A0On cygwin 1.5 it was only around 1 second. =C2=A0I captured some l=
ogs from
>> the startup using this process:
>> - Open cmd shell
>> cd C:\cygwin\bin
>> bash --login -i -x 1> =C2=A0C:\startlog.txt 2>&1
>>
>> The log is attached. I don't see anything strange except that it seems
>> pretty long. The same process on cygwin 1.5 gives much less output. I
>> can provide that log if needed.
>> Any ideas?
>
> It's the loading of all the bashcompletion scripts. Move the directory
> /etc/bash_completion.d away and you'll see it's a lot faster.

Perhaps bash completion shouldn't be enabled just by installing it,
because lots of people seem to install everything "just in case".

Andy

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