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On 9/13/2011 10:26 AM, Joćo Moreira wrote:
> Hello everyone,
> yesterday I started noticing some slowness in mintty.
> I was just compiling some C++ code to run outside cygwin (with
> -mno-cygwin) in windows. It didn't work at the time because I forgot
> to link some libraries.
> But anyway, I gave up then but when I latter restarted mintty it took
> a long time to start and my user name no longer appeared in the shell.
> Instead I got "-bash-4.1$".
> Not only that, but doing an "ls" also took more than usual. I tried it
> in the cygwin window itself but, while my username was now showing, it
> was still very slow.
>
> I then decided to do a clean install. Removed everything (registry
> keys included), downloaded the latest installer (2.738) and tried
> again (running as admin).
> However, during the "postinstall scripts" part of the setup, it was
> really, really slow. It took about 40 mins to finish this part (about
> 20 scripts).
> I removed my antivirus (Avira Antivir), installed and ran rebaseall
> but to no avail. A reinstall still took forever, and searching was
> still too slow.
> Tried installing to a directory with no whitespaces (C:\) but got the
> same results.
>
> I am using Windows Ultimate 64 running on Intel64 bit. I include a
> redacted cygcheck.out in attachment.
>
> Can you help me guys?
>
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> Joao Moreira

try a path without space
C:\Program Files (x86)\Cygwin

like
c:\cygwin


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