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On 12/1/2011 4:58 PM, Tim McDaniel wrote:
> I wrote:
>> $ time echo hello
>> hello
>>
>> real 0m0.000s
>> user 0m0.000s
>> sys 0m0.000s
>>
>> $ cp /dev/null frog
>> $ time cat frog
>>
>> real 0m1.259s
>> user 0m0.000s
>> sys 0m0.015s
>
> Someone replied directly to me, to say that Cygwin should not be that
> slow on 64-bit installations. He asked whether I have anti-virus
> installed, and whether I have looked at the "BLODA list".
>
> BLODA is the Big List Of Dodgy Apps, apparently from
> http://cygwin.com/faq/faq.using.html#faq.using.bloda
>
> 44. What applications have been found to interfere with Cygwin?
>
>  From time to time, people have reported strange failures and
> problems in Cygwin and Cygwin packages that seem to have no
> rational explanation ....
>
> Unfortunately, "Norton/McAfee/Symantec antivirus or antispyware" is
> the second item listed. This is a work machine. IT installed
> Symantec Endpoint Protection on it and locked down absolutely every
> setting whatsoever (except for how long to keep local logs). I really
> doubt that they'd unlock anything for me, especially because I'm brand
> new and we don't do very much on Windows.
>
> Unless someone has another suggestion, maybe I just have to assume I'm
> SOL.
>

FYI,
I am running a W7/64 with Symantec Endpoint Protection (11.0.6200.754) 
installed and I have no particular speed issue, but I am running a
very recent snapshot

Regards
Marco


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