Very Slow Setup Parsing / was Re: Segmentation Faults
Ian Lambert via cygwin
cygwin@cygwin.com
Wed Mar 22 18:01:00 GMT 2017
On Wed, 3/22/17, Ken Brown <kbrown@cornell.edu> wrote:
Subject: Re: Very Slow Setup Parsing / was Re: Segmentation Faults
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Date: Wednesday, March 22, 2017, 12:10 PM
On 3/22/2017 11:59 AM,
Ian Lambert via cygwin wrote:
> I've
now downloaded a complete cygwin mirror
>
onto a networked storage, done a new install, and
> cygwin works OK again. However, doing
updates or
> package installs is (1)
extremely slow, and (2) giving
> a below
reported permissions problem.
>
> (1) Slowness. After the setup initial
steps and pointing
> to the local install
location, I get to the following display
> for 10s of minutes to hours (see log
excerpt farther down).
> It eventually
goes to the next step. There is a very
>
low, steady network traffic during the delay. This
> storage and network is usually fast for
other things,
> including during actual
package installs.
You might
want to checkout the '-m --mirror-mode' option to
setup.
= = = = =
Ken,
Works great! Hoping my mirror stays "clean."
I missed the discussions of this "new" option,
and documentation is the last thing to be updated.
:)
https://cygwin.com/faq.html#faq.setup.cli
Thanks!
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