Re: Can't run baseall

["Alexander J. Herrmann" <ping2weltall at gmail dot com>]

Don Edvalson wrote:

> Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:
>
> > Right.  Starting from the beginning and looking at the simplest/most 
> > common
> > potential causes makes the most sense.  And providing as much detail as
> > possible about what's going on is a good idea as well.  However, if 
> > the more
> > obvious solutions don't help, then you might want to consider this 
> > option:
> >
> > <http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2005-09/msg00945.html>
>
> Larry,
>
> I tried the solution mentioned above, but it didn't help. However it 
> did put me on the right track. I started carefully killing Windows 
> processes. After I had killed enough of them, Cygwin started working 
> perfectly again and I could do my compiles. So I think I was looking 
> in the wrong direction with rebase in the first place. I am still 
> narrowing it down, but I found that two pieces of hardware I had added 
> lately, a webcam and a Sprint Wireless network connection were running 
> lots of processes all the time, even when that hardware was not 
> installed or running. I believe the culprit is one of these. When I 
> figure out exactly what process was causing this, I will let you know.

You also can try to prevent certain services to be started - for example 
for the not installed hardware by using the
msconfig
Utility which comes with windoze but - of course - is not documented but 
works well. You can execute it with Start->Run->msconfig
The advantage is you don't have to kill the processes just unmark them 
and they won't get started. If you need them just mark them again. The 
drawback is - you have to reboot. But on the other hand it can speed up 
Windoze and saves memory because not loading a lot of Plug-and-pray 
drivers waiting for some hardware to be connected.

Alex

> Thanks for the help.
>
> Don
>
>
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