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:subject:to:references:from:message-id:date :mime-version:in-reply-to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; q=dns; s=default; b=PYJam2uWxC3GH5d0 ghM0RxbP9Rku+itqWUCnYfLZ38gcw1n4OzbPhROi4es6VA1FRkAMqUGDto04joxC 5pgQgfygybKkGQCK+EBp0qNB20LcoIfCwLS9b7r6BejDm3d9RIzTwEKCuFlhag5M oucicDSW1iHg4nc5kpg4eSmdB94= 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:subject:to:references:from:message-id:date :mime-version:in-reply-to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; s=default; bh=iMpCz/LFtD0IgowvMuajvz di8xI=; b=C0cwJzlvbNnW43324bcPd+qcoIYqNUyF/Ewvn+32umDVl4ksgahy/e 6s4BObbZBpvgmHKet0mvNcwaH0T+5HCxPVi1iZXaFPdHXnyDoSZTsHGM9GkZ3b6N AumQ7/i83nwqTfmi99cL3riiwzEd1NhVxCi1nPU+9iNQkUxvQZowk= 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=-2.5 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 X-HELO: mail-wi0-f182.google.com X-Received: by 10.194.246.102 with SMTP id xv6mr1332548wjc.58.1443120285065; Thu, 24 Sep 2015 11:44:45 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Re: Bash / cygwin process spawning (?) performance very slow To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com References: <5603CEC3 DOT 5080607 AT gmail DOT com> <560431B5 DOT 5040203 AT null DOT net> From: Marco Atzeri Message-ID: <56044496.2010706@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2015 20:44:38 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.2.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes On 24/09/2015 19:46, Lee wrote: > On 9/24/15, litter wrote: >>> On 24/09/2015 11:57, litter wrote: >>>> Obviously something is. The FAQ entry does not mention performance, but >>>> real failures. >>>> How to further diagnose this? >> >> I took the plunge and spent almost a full day trying to find the cause. > ... snip ... >> turns out that Comodo Firewall (Free version) loads a DLL in each process >> that is the cause of the delay. > ... snip ... >> (although it would have been nice if there was an easier way to diagnose it, >> maybe with tracing?) Tracing may report it as at process load is reporting the loaded dll's --- Process 7380 loaded C:\Windows\System32\ntdll.dll at 0000000077360000 --- Process 7380 loaded C:\Windows\System32\kernel32.dll at 0000000077240000 --- Process 7380 loaded C:\Windows\System32\KernelBase.dll at 000007FEFDB20000 --- Process 7380 loaded C:\Windows\System32\sysfer.dll at 0000000074B40000 --- Process 7380 loaded E:\cygwin64\bin\cygwin1.dll at 0000000180040000 --- Process 7380 loaded E:\cygwin64\bin\cygiconv-2.dll at 00000003C2700000 --- Process 7380 loaded E:\cygwin64\bin\cygintl-8.dll at 00000003BEC90000 --- Process 7380 loaded E:\cygwin64\bin\cygncursesw-10.dll at 00000003BD880000 --- Process 7380 loaded E:\cygwin64\bin\cygreadline7.dll at 00000003B5FD0000 --- Process 7380 loaded C:\Windows\System32\user32.dll at 0000000076C60000 --- Process 7380 loaded C:\Windows\System32\gdi32.dll at 000007FEFEBE0000 --- Process 7380 loaded C:\Windows\System32\lpk.dll at 000007FEFF3C0000 --- Process 7380 loaded C:\Windows\System32\usp10.dll at 000007FEFF500000 --- Process 7380 loaded C:\Windows\System32\msvcrt.dll at 000007FEFF5D0000 > If you use http://www.dependencywalker.com/ on bash.exe with view/full > paths enabled, does the Comodo Firewall dll stand out or is it just > another .dll loaded from windows\system32? unlikely to appear as it is not a dependency but an injected dll > > Regards, > Lee -- 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