CYGWIN slow when accessing network share

[Brian Inglis]

On 2019-01-23 10:07, cyg Simple wrote:
> On 1/22/2019 4:27 PM, J. David Boyd wrote:
>> I've tried Googling for this, with pretty much 0 results.

Search for "network slow", "ls slow", or prefix with Cygwin on other sites.

>> On my windows 10 machine (32 or 64 bit Cygwin) ls of anything that is a
>> network share seems to be really slow, taking 20 - 30 seconds to complete.
>> Saving a file there takes about 10 -20 seconds as well.
>> My windows 7 machine (32 bit Cygwin) doesn't do that.  They are both running
>> same version of cgywin, except that saving with the windows 7 doesn't slow
>> down.
>> Where should I start to find a resolution for this?  Anyone have a web url
>> where the problem has been discussed?

Try: 	https://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/2016-01/msg00261.html

> Search the Cygwin FAQ for the word BLODA.  You've something different on the two
> systems that interferes with the network traffic.

UNC entries in PATH and other networking artifacts can slow down access.

See:	https://cygwin.com/faq.html#faq.using.startup-slow

Network access may be slowed down by accessing AD.
Install and run cygserver at system startup to cache and share Cygwin AD info
across processes.

-- 
Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

This email may be disturbing to some readers as it contains
too much technical detail. Reader discretion is advised.

--
Problem reports:       http://cygwin.com/problems.html
FAQ:                   http://cygwin.com/faq/
Documentation:         http://cygwin.com/docs.html
Unsubscribe info:      http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple