X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-0.8 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_50,DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,FREEMAIL_FROM,FROM_LOCAL_NOVOWEL,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,T_TO_NO_BRKTS_FREEMAIL X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <4E72E2C9.7020300@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2011 23:46:49 -0600 From: "J.V." User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:6.0.2) Gecko/20110902 Thunderbird/6.0.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: 36 seconds to do /usr/bin/ls, mkdir and other commands Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes 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 I install the latest cygwin on Windows XP Pro x32 on a VM under the latest version of VirtualBox. When I do anything it takes a long time. If I do an $ls in a directory it takes 36 seconds or more. Many other commands take just as long like $mkdir etc. What is causing this, and how do I fix it? The host machine is a quad core with 8GB ram, only one VM running at a time (1GB & 16GB disk with plenty of space). Everything else is super zippy except for cygwin. J.V. -- 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