Solved Re: Bash / cygwin process spawning (?) performance very slow

[litter at null dot net]

> turns out that Comodo Firewall (Free version) loads a DLL in each process that is the cause of the delay.
> Although I only use the Firewall, and do not use any "AntiVirus" features, still it causes delay during startup of a process.
> 
> However, after disabling it -- which did speed up process spawning in Bash --  I encountered the other problem I already had much more often.
> For now I consider the issue of slow spawning to be solved
> (although it would have been nice if there was an easier way to diagnose it, maybe with tracing?)

After some more experimenting, and reading on Comodo issues in combination with Chrome, I found the following solution:
Add the cygwin installation folder to Comodo's 'Detect Shellcode Injections Exclusions' setting. This will lead to an immediate drop
in 'spawn' times to more acceptable levels. Somehow 'Detect Shellcode Injections' is active, even when HIPS is disabled.

Paul


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