Very slow Cygwin startup on Windows 7

[Corinna Vinschen]

On Feb 13 03:34, Andrey Repin wrote:
> Greetings, Corinna Vinschen!
> 
> >> [...]
> >> If you are accepting suggestions, and up for some experimentation, try this:
> >> 
> >> # getent passwd $(id -u) > /etc/passwd
> >> # getent group $(id -G) > /etc/group
> >> # echo -e "#\npasswd: files db\ngroup: files db\n" > /etc/nsswitch.conf
> >> 
> >> and start bash without cygserver running. Just for test.
> >> The idea is to have "your" groups in files so that in simple case of (just
> >> startup" Cygwin don't have to talk to DC all too much. If at all.
> >> 
> >> You'd still need to run cygserver to benefit from long-time caching, though.
> 
> > Do you feel up to the task to extend the FAQ entry
> 
> > https://cygwin.com/faq/faq.html#faq.using.startup-slow
> 
> > with a description of your solution?
> 
> I took a liberty to reorder and rewrite it a little.
> Please tell me, if I didn't lost anything in the process.

It reads nicely.  The paragraph starting with "The 1.7.35 release is
expected..." needs a tweak as soon as 1.7.35 goes release, of course,
but otherwise it's really neat.

The problem is this:  The source of the file is not in HTML but in XML,
see https://sourceware.org/viewvc/src/winsup/doc/faq-setup.xml?view=log

Any problem to rework for XML and sending as unified patch against the
latest version of the file from CVS?


Thanks a lot,
Corinna

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Corinna Vinschen                  Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to
Cygwin Maintainer                 cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Red Hat
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