bash very slow in cygwin 1.7.16-1 Win7/64 bit

[Adam Kessel]

On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 8:45 PM, Adam Kessel <ajkessel@gmail.com> wrote:
> So after a reboot--still fast. This is after a month or so of
> slowness. But I didn't change anything about my configuration!

Now I'm really confused.

cygwin was very slow -- then I killed Dropbox, and it sped back up.
But after a while it reverted to slow again (without Dropbox
restarting). I've repeated this behavior with a few other tasks--same
thing happened with Google Desktop and Skydrive. I'm not sure it
actually matters which task I kill -- but killing them will speed
things up for a bit and then it seems to revert to very slow again,
even if the tasks aren't restarted.

Can anyone offer a way to narrow/isolate the cause here? Is the above
behavior consistent with any hypothesis?

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