X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-5.6 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,FREEMAIL_FROM,KHOP_RCVD_TRUST,KHOP_THREADED,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,RCVD_IN_HOSTKARMA_YE X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: <5068AEF2 DOT 6040006 AT rosi-kessel DOT org> <5069BE59 DOT 5030303 AT malth DOT us> <5069C743 DOT 5090908 AT cornell DOT edu> <5069D273 DOT 6060507 AT cornell DOT edu> <5069D7CA DOT 6070902 AT cornell DOT edu> Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2012 22:01:26 -0400 Message-ID: Subject: Re: bash very slow in cygwin 1.7.16-1 Win7/64 bit From: Adam Kessel To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: 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 On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 9:59 PM, Adam Kessel wrote: > Now I'm really confused. > > cygwin was very slow -- then I killed Dropbox, and it sped back up. > But after a while it reverted to slow again (without Dropbox > restarting). I've repeated this behavior with a few other tasks--same > thing happened with Google Desktop and Skydrive. I'm not sure it > actually matters which task I kill -- but killing them will speed > things up for a bit and then it seems to revert to very slow again, > even if the tasks aren't restarted. > > Can anyone offer a way to narrow/isolate the cause here? Is the above > behavior consistent with any hypothesis? Was running very slowly; just closed Google Chrome and it got fast again. Then re-opened Chrome and slow again. So it really doesn't seem to matter what program it is. Adam -- 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