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Re: 30 second startup delay on Cygwin programs from SYSTEM
- To: lhall at rfk dot com ("Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)")
- Subject: Re: 30 second startup delay on Cygwin programs from SYSTEM
- From: Scott Atwood <atwood at CS dot Stanford dot EDU>
- Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2001 11:29:17 -0700 (PDT)
- Cc: cygwin at cygwin dot com
"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
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