36 seconds to do /usr/bin/ls, mkdir and other commands

36 seconds to do /usr/bin/ls, mkdir and other commands

[J.V.]

I install the latest cygwin on Windows XP Pro x32 on a VM under the 
latest version of VirtualBox.

When I do anything it takes a long time.

If I do an $ls in a directory it takes 36 seconds or more.

Many other commands take just as long like $mkdir etc.

What is causing this, and how do I fix it?

The host machine is a quad core with 8GB ram, only one VM running at a 
time (1GB & 16GB disk with plenty of space).

Everything else is super zippy except for cygwin.


J.V.

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Re: 36 seconds to do /usr/bin/ls, mkdir and other commands

[Marco Atzeri]

On 16/09/2011 7.46, J.V. wrote:
> I install the latest cygwin on Windows XP Pro x32 on a VM under the
> latest version of VirtualBox.
>
> When I do anything it takes a long time.
>
> If I do an $ls in a directory it takes 36 seconds or more.
>
> Many other commands take just as long like $mkdir etc.
>
> What is causing this, and how do I fix it?
>
> The host machine is a quad core with 8GB ram, only one VM running at a
> time (1GB & 16GB disk with plenty of space).
>
> Everything else is super zippy except for cygwin.
>
>
> J.V.
>
> --

start from here:
> Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html

also if bash-completion is installed try removing it

Regards
Marco



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Re: 36 seconds to do /usr/bin/ls, mkdir and other commands

[J.V.]

This did the trick, thanks:

Uninstalling:
     git-completion (bash completion would not un-install without 
uninstalling this as well)
     bash completion

both uninstalled and I have a fast ls and made my VM usable again.

thanks!

J.V.

On 9/15/2011 11:50 PM, Marco Atzeri wrote:
> On 16/09/2011 7.46, J.V. wrote:
>> I install the latest cygwin on Windows XP Pro x32 on a VM under the
>> latest version of VirtualBox.
>>
>> When I do anything it takes a long time.
>>
>> If I do an $ls in a directory it takes 36 seconds or more.
>>
>> Many other commands take just as long like $mkdir etc.
>>
>> What is causing this, and how do I fix it?
>>
>> The host machine is a quad core with 8GB ram, only one VM running at a
>> time (1GB & 16GB disk with plenty of space).
>>
>> Everything else is super zippy except for cygwin.
>>
>>
>> J.V.
>>
>> -- 
>
> start from here:
>> Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html
>
> also if bash-completion is installed try removing it
>
> Regards
> Marco
>
>
>
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