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RE: Very slow Cygwin startup on Windows 7


Yep - absolutely.

>> Using x86_64/cygwin1-20150223.dll.xz??
>> 
>> ~ uname -a
>> CYGWIN_NT-6.1 DEHAGART-WS02 1.7.35s(0.286/5/3) 20150223 21:02:38 x86_64 Cygwin
>> 
>> ~ cat /etc/nsswitch.conf
>> passwd: db
>> group: db
>> 
>> First manual start of bash shell *seemed* to take slightly longer than before and slightly longer than files db setting.
>> But anyway, the timed results show this:
>> 
>> cmd /v:on /c "echo !TIME! & C:\cygwin64\bin\mintty.exe /bin/echo "test" & echo !TIME!"
>> 
>> C:\Users\dehagart>cmd /v:on /c "echo !TIME! & C:\cygwin64\bin\mintty.exe /bin/echo "test" & echo !TIME!"	
>> 14:22:01.74	
>> 14:22:02.56	00:00.82
>> 	
>> C:\Users\dehagart>cmd /v:on /c "echo !TIME! & C:\cygwin64\bin\mintty.exe /bin/echo "test" & echo !TIME!"	
>> 14:22:07.10	
>> 14:22:07.27	00:00.17
>> 	
>> C:\Users\dehagart>cmd /v:on /c "echo !TIME! & C:\cygwin64\bin\mintty.exe /bin/echo "test" & echo !TIME!"	
>> 14:22:08.99	
>> 14:22:09.16	00:00.17
>> 	
>> C:\Users\dehagart>cmd /v:on /c "echo !TIME! & C:\cygwin64\bin\mintty.exe /bin/echo "test" & echo !TIME!"	
>> 14:22:10.72	
>> 14:22:10.89	00:00.17
>> 
>> I.e. significantly better.
>
>Excellent!  Is that something you can live with, including the
>occassional longer time(*)?
>
> (*) Which is probably some background effect, probably mostly to do with
>   OS caching stuff.


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