Slow/sluggish response ("system" task at 50%)

[Gene Smith]

Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote, On 06/22/2009 08:08 PM:
>
> There's also 1.7 - <http://cygwin.com/#beta-test>
>

1.7 seems to fix it. It now takes 34 seconds as compared to 14 minutes 
with cygwin-1.5. (But I suspect that a fresh install of 1.5 might 
produce similar or better results.)

At some point, 1.5 started getting slow for me. I don't know (yet) what 
caused it. I still have the conflict with winavr using 1.7 so I don't 
think that is it.

Someone on a list mention about "home directory" affecting cygwin speed. 
I do notice that on 1.7-beta $HOME is /home/smited (under 
c:\cygwin-1.7\). While on my 1.5 $HOME is /cygdrive/c/Documents and 
Settings/smited. Somehow 1.5 points $HOME to the existing windows "home" 
while 1.7 points $HOME to a new and almost empty directory under 
c:\cygwin-1.7. Does this matter at all?



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