Very slow Cygwin startup on Windows 7

[Corinna Vinschen]

On Feb 24 13:30, Dennis Hagarty (dehagart) wrote:
> Hi Corinna,
> 
> Using x86_64/cygwin1-20150223.dll.xz??
> 
> ~ uname -a
> CYGWIN_NT-6.1 DEHAGART-WS02 1.7.35s(0.286/5/3) 20150223 21:02:38 x86_64 Cygwin
> 
> ~ cat /etc/nsswitch.conf
> passwd: db
> group: db
> 
> First manual start of bash shell *seemed* to take slightly longer than before and slightly longer than files db setting.
> But anyway, the timed results show this:
> 
> cmd /v:on /c "echo !TIME! & C:\cygwin64\bin\mintty.exe /bin/echo "test" & echo !TIME!"
> 
> C:\Users\dehagart>cmd /v:on /c "echo !TIME! & C:\cygwin64\bin\mintty.exe /bin/echo "test" & echo !TIME!"	
> 14:22:01.74	
> 14:22:02.56	00:00.82
> 	
> C:\Users\dehagart>cmd /v:on /c "echo !TIME! & C:\cygwin64\bin\mintty.exe /bin/echo "test" & echo !TIME!"	
> 14:22:07.10	
> 14:22:07.27	00:00.17
> 	
> C:\Users\dehagart>cmd /v:on /c "echo !TIME! & C:\cygwin64\bin\mintty.exe /bin/echo "test" & echo !TIME!"	
> 14:22:08.99	
> 14:22:09.16	00:00.17
> 	
> C:\Users\dehagart>cmd /v:on /c "echo !TIME! & C:\cygwin64\bin\mintty.exe /bin/echo "test" & echo !TIME!"	
> 14:22:10.72	
> 14:22:10.89	00:00.17
> 
> I.e. significantly better.

Excellent!  Is that something you can live with, including the
occassional longer time(*)?

(*) Which is probably some background effect, probably mostly to do with
    OS caching stuff.


Thanks,
Corinna

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Corinna Vinschen                  Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to
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