Midnight Commander is very slow when starting and changing directories

[Marco Atzeri]

On 26/07/2016 11:39, Krzysztof Bociurko wrote:
> Tried to list all drive letters (with help of
> http://serverfault.com/questions/62578/how-to-get-a-list-of-drive-letters-on-a-system-through-a-windows-shell-bat-cmd)
> and:
>
>     PS C:\Users\chanibal> wmic logicaldisk get
> caption,providername,drivetype,volumename
>     Caption  DriveType  ProviderName  VolumeName
>     C:       3                        SSD
>     D:      3                        HDD
>     E:       5               <------------ this is a DVD drive not
> used for months (years?)
>
> And it took close to the 4 seconds - similar to the issue I am experiencing:
>
>     PS C:\Users\chanibal> Measure-Command { wmic logicaldisk get
> caption,providername,drivetype,volumename }
>     (...)
>     TotalSeconds      : 5,0886857
>     (...)
>
> Disabling the DVD drive with Device Manager changed the above time to
> 0.063s, changed `ls /cygdrive` time to 0.015s and Midnight Commander
> STARTED FINALLY WORKING IN REAL TIME. Thank you!
>
>
> All right, now the question is WHY did this fail - I think it might be
> considered Cygwin bug material, almost none windows app has failed
> this way (with the exception of this windows mc build).
>

If both version of MC are stacked as also wmic, it is because all
asked the same thing to windows and it took 4 seconds
to receive and answer.

Not cygwin bug. Eventually of your DVD driver.

My DVD D: takes no time

  $ time /cygdrive/c/windows/System32/wbem/WMIC.exe logicaldisk get 
caption,providername,drivetype,volumename
Caption  DriveType  ProviderName  VolumeName
C:       3
D:       5
E:       3                        HD-Atzeri3

real    0m0.156s
user    0m0.015s
sys     0m0.062s





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