X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=sourceware.org; h=list-id :list-unsubscribe:list-subscribe:list-archive:list-post :list-help:sender:message-id:date:from:mime-version:to:subject :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; q=dns; s= default; b=YEpa7cRxdR9KL3T+8Lgq+va4s9E/qY9EK6FSHcVdTEcuwJrZq5c53 VZTi8Ff6967GmBuxnAGa5yaIqOlkIRoUv4+5S9t6Q12221r13aiWDckyTtVOCqDi BIRzoI0ToA6dO7CQtv4RIyGwvjuh/E32EruqA+S54qULguBddh1PLg= DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=sourceware.org; h=list-id :list-unsubscribe:list-subscribe:list-archive:list-post :list-help:sender:message-id:date:from:mime-version:to:subject :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; s=default; bh=+2ORcbHs8FEEPq3TXhFdgqIBRfM=; b=mwP9OlBHg0s9WbpV60xaz+zjPMhz bC3tz2zM/Jud+ZcGeMra0JncSCtkAVQVNjfFM3LzfWjfumjL+pEpJoyXxJSiCY5u wHA0dCklhwGqYk7PskVk75NcLAG/24MOiw+bFs6dWU7LaqpI2OBFmdZ0YKKWTCk7 hXpuH0QJ3PXxUk4= 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 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=0.1 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 X-HELO: blade-b3-vm7-relay.servers.aueb.gr Message-ID: <5508195C.8070407@aueb.gr> Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2015 14:09:00 +0200 From: Diomidis Spinellis User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Windows Server 2012 R2 - man very very slow In-Reply-To: <548EEB8A.6070005@cygwin.com> Phone: +30 210 8203621 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed X-IsSubscribed: yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id t2HC9JLi022384 On Sun, Dec 14, 2014 at 4:17 PM, Vilius Mockūnas wrote: > Windows version: > Windows Server 2012 R2 Standard (x64) > > Cygwin version: > $ uname -a > CYGWIN_NT-6.3-WOW64 host1 1.7.33-2(0.280/5/3) 2014-11-13 15:45 i686 Cygwin > > man displays man pages very slowly - for example "man ls" takes about 45s to > display. > > Any ideas ? I have been troubled by the same problem for years. I pinpointed the problem by running strace on the man command. See the following excerpt. 00:00:03 [main] man 3120 stat64: entering 00:00:03 [main] man 3120 normalize_posix_path: src //man 00:00:03 [main] man 3120 normalize_posix_path: //man = normalize_posix_path (//man) 00:00:03 [main] man 3120 mount_info::conv_to_win32_path: conv_to_win32_path (//man) 00:00:03 [main] man 3120 set_flags: flags: binary (0x2) 00:00:03 [main] man 3120 mount_info::conv_to_win32_path: src_path //man, dst \\man, flags 0x2, rc 0 00:00:03 [main] man 3120 build_fh_pc: fh 0x612AE734, dev 000000C2 00:00:03 [WNetOpenEnum] man 3120 cygthread::stub: thread 'WNetOpenEnum', id 0x141C, stack_ptr 0xD1AD40 --- Process 3120, exception 000006ba at 7753C42D 00:00:05 [main] man 3120 __set_errno: int stat_worker(path_conv&, stat*):1923 setting errno 2 00:00:05 [main] man 3120 stat_worker: -1 = (\??\UNC\man,0x28AA70) As you can see, man is trying to open a UNC (network) path to //man, which is a non-existent host. The network timeout causes the delay. I addressed the problem by adding the following in my .bash_profile file export MANPATH=/usr/share/man Diomidis Spinellis - http://www.spinellis.gr -- 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