Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com From: Scott Atwood Message-Id: <200110261829.LAA27841@Xenon.Stanford.EDU> Subject: Re: 30 second startup delay on Cygwin programs from SYSTEM To: lhall@rfk.com ("Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)") Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2001 11:29:17 -0700 (PDT) Cc: cygwin@cygwin.com In-Reply-To: <4.3.1.2.20011026093939.01821548@pop.ma.ultranet.com> from "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" at Oct 26, 2001 09:46:50 AM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL2] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" writes: > > FAQ entry > > Why is Cygwin suddenly so slow? > http://www.cygwin.com/faq/faq_4.html#SEC32 > > is a good hint. Focus on the fact that network shares (or drives) in the > path are an issue, not necessarily the recent change that makes the now > obsolete //X drive syntax equivalent to a network path. While this may be > your problem, references to network directories in your path is a timeless > issue that can account for the behavior you describe. There are multiple > posts about this in the mail archives, although they are likely to be > buried fairly far back in the archives and may be difficult to unearth > if you don't happen to hit a keyword used in those messages. ;-) I don't think the //X drive syntax is the problem here. This is a new installation, so I can't compare to previous versions of the Cygwin DLL, but the %PATH% of the SYSTEM account doesn't contain any network drives: C:\WINNT\system32;C:\WINNT;C:\WINNT\System32\Wbem;C:\Program Files\Symantec\pcAnywhere\;C:\Program Files\Common Files\Network Associates\VirusScan Engine\4.0.xx\;C:\cygwin\bin -Scott -- Scott Atwood atwood@cs.stanford.edu PGP key fingerprint: 2852 FAE0 B0BB FE52 7002 1019 4D48 78B3 6FF0 A89F -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/