Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sourceware.cygnus.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com Message-ID: <20000616135017.26974.qmail@web108.yahoomail.com> Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2000 06:50:17 -0700 (PDT) From: Earnie Boyd Reply-To: earnie_boyd@yahoo.com Subject: Re: all commands start up sloooooow...... To: Carl Thompson , Frank Merenda Cc: Cygwin List MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii What I've noticed on this issue is that if I disable the Virus Scanner speed improves at an unbelievable amount. WITIH is that the Virus Scanner is warned anytime a file is touched and goes to check for changes and ends up slowing down the entire works. Regards, Earnie. --- Carl Thompson wrote: > Frank Merenda wrote: > > > ... > > > there's loads more here, and I can't wait to use it all. but EVERY > > tool that I start up starts extremely slowly. There's delays in every > > command. I also notived that when I do a "ls" on a directory with a > > lot of files there's a large delay, but the second time I do a "ls" > > the files list quickly. > > > > can anyone help me with this? I would love to be able to move on to > > the new version. Thanks in advance! > > I've noticed the same thing myself, but I believe it happens for any program > you run, not just those that come with Cygwin. It's just more noticeable > when programs are run from the bash prompt. Once a program is started, > subsequent startups are reasonably fast. > > The interesting thing I've noticed is that it happens on only one of my two > Windows 2000 machines. The are both identical recent installs of the OS and > Cygwin. The only difference I can think of is that on the "slow" one I have > installed VC++ 6.0 but on the "normal" I have not. Are you running VC++ or > any other Microsoft development software? > > > Thanks, > > Frank Merenda | Senior Software Engineer > > Carl Thompson > > -- > Want to unsubscribe from this list? > Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Send instant messages with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com/ -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com