Re: 30 second startup delay on Cygwin programs from SYSTEM account

["Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" <lhall at rfk dot com>]

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. ;-)

Larry Hall                              lhall@rfk.com
RFK Partners, Inc.                      http://www.rfk.com
118 Washington Street                   (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office
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At 07:15 PM 10/25/2001, Scott Atwood wrote:
>I am running Cygwin 1.3.3 on Windows 2000 Server, and I have noticed a
>strange problem.  Whenever I try to start a Cygwin process from a windows
>cmd shell as the user SYSTEM, there is an approximately 30 second delay
>before the process starts.  If I have started a bash process as SYSTEM,
>subesequent processes started from within bash start normally.  Cygwin
>processes always start normally for the Administrator user.
>
>I have looked in the FAQ and the documentation, searched Google, and
>searched the Cygwin mailing list archive, and I couldn't find any
>mention of this problem.
>
>-Scott
>
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