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On 2008-08-06 18:23Z, Burt Silverman wrote:
> Just confirming Bruno DeLoroux observation that cygwin starts very very 
> slowly on some Windows XP installations.  And "ls" is fairly slow.  My 
> Desktop PC is generally faster than my laptop, but the situation is 
> reversed with regards to these cygwin activities; startup is painful on 
> the Desktop.

Did you notice Dave Korn's reply posted 23 minutes after that
original article? You might get specific suggestions tailored
to your situation if you followed the procedure here:

> Problem reports:       http://cygwin.com/problems.html

It might be BLODA:

http://cygwin.com/faq/faq.using.html#faq.using.bloda


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