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

[Larry Hall (Cygwin)]

Gene Smith wrote:

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> Since I don't have a "HOME" env var in windows, cygwin is getting the 
> cygwin HOME from /etc/passwd. So I tried it both ways. With 1.5 I set 
> home to be the empty directory /home/smited (under c:/cygwin). It didn't 
> make it any faster. With beta-1.7 I set home to /cygdrive/c/Documents 
> and Settings/smited (where all the cruft is) and it didn't make it any 
> slower. So where cygwin points $HOME at terminal startup does not seem 
> to have an effect for me. Current version 1.5 is slow while beta-1.7 is 
> fast, for still unknown reasons.

I guess you're stuck looking at strace output to see if that helps
pinpoint the problem...

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