Setup 2.774 texlive postinstall takes 10+ hours (resending due to cygwin bounce)

[Achim Gratz]

Ken Brown writes:
> I don't see anything in those scripts that would explain this.  I just
> ran them manually on my system, and the times (in minutes) were  14,
> 3, 2.5, 2.5, and 7.  So I can't think of any explanation except that
> something on your system (anti-virus or other BLODA?) was interfering.

IIRC, most of the time (wallclock, it really doesn't use much CPU) in
these scripts is taken up by kpsewhich (there is a short phase of disk
activity at the beginning that corresponds to building of the ls-lR
database).  I've never observed it taking _this_ long however, so I
suspect that kpsewhich had/has forking problems on the OPs' system.


Regards,
Achim.
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