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Re: 30 second startup delay on Cygwin programs from SYSTEM account
- To: robert dot collins at itdomain dot com dot au (Robert Collins)
- Subject: Re: 30 second startup delay on Cygwin programs from SYSTEM account
- From: Scott Atwood <atwood at CS dot Stanford dot EDU>
- Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2001 14:36:06 -0800 (PST)
- Cc: atwood at CS dot Stanford dot EDU (Scott Atwood), cygwin at cygwin dot com
Robert Collins writes:
> On Fri, 2001-10-26 at 11:07, Scott Atwood wrote:
> > I ran "strace bash" as user SYSTEM and here is an excerpt of the output.
> >
> > 2949 226918 [main] bash 1428 internal_getlogin: GetUserName() = SYSTEM
> > 30450200 30677118 [main] bash 1428 internal_getlogin: Domain: (null),
> > Logon Server: CHARON, Windows Username: SYSTEM
> >
> > The output paused for about 30 seconds after the first line printed, and
> > before the second line printed.
>
> Right, here's whats happening:
> SYSTEM doesn't belong to any network groups - it's local only, but
> Cygwin is trying to find out it's network data - such as the home
> domain.
>
> Cygwin spawned/forked/execed process's can inherit that data in the
> cygwin heap IIRC. Which is why no delay is seen - it's been optimised
> away. But there would be a 30 second delay firing up bash.
>
> As for why the 30 second delay in the first place, what's your system
> config:
> Are you a member of a win2k AD or an NT4 domain?
No and no.
> Are you running NBT?
Yes.
> Are you running NTLM?
No.
> Are you running the Server process?
Yes.
> Are you running the workstation process?
Yes.
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