From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 26717 invoked by alias); 28 Aug 2012 08:12:59 -0000 Received: (qmail 26700 invoked by uid 22791); 28 Aug 2012 08:12:57 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-5.5 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,FREEMAIL_FROM,KHOP_RCVD_TRUST,KHOP_THREADED,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,RCVD_IN_HOSTKARMA_YE,TW_YG X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mail-vc0-f171.google.com (HELO mail-vc0-f171.google.com) (209.85.220.171) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Tue, 28 Aug 2012 08:12:44 +0000 Received: by vcdd16 with SMTP id d16so6162413vcd.2 for ; Tue, 28 Aug 2012 01:12:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.221.1.208 with SMTP id nr16mr3417349vcb.20.1346141563451; Tue, 28 Aug 2012 01:12:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [172.21.193.104] (85-18-126-22.ip.fastwebnet.it. [85.18.126.22]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id b15sm7305650vdt.7.2012.08.28.01.12.41 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Tue, 28 Aug 2012 01:12:42 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <503C7D78.6020905@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2012 15:00:00 -0000 From: marco atzeri User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:14.0) Gecko/20120713 Thunderbird/14.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com CC: arnold@skeeve.com Subject: Re: stuff running slowly References: <201208260803.q7Q83kme006060@freefriends.org> In-Reply-To: <201208260803.q7Q83kme006060@freefriends.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com X-SW-Source: 2012-08/txt/msg00612.txt.bz2 On 8/26/2012 10:03 AM, arnold@skeeve.com wrote: > Hi. Please cc me on any answers, as I am not subscribed to the list. > > I have a recent (a few weeeks old) cygwin install on my Win 7 laptop > Core i5 (Sandy Bridge) + an SSD. > > When I first did the install I thought I saw a performance improvement > over the ~ 1 year old install I had. In the past two weeks though, it > has slowed way down. Running > > ./configure && make && make check > > in the gawk master branch takes close to half an hour, maybe more! On > simlar hardware under Linux, it takes less than a minute. > > I had to disable the bash_completion stuff at startup to even get a > shell prompt within a reasonable amount of time. > > Clerly something is wrong somewhere, but I'm not a Windows god so I > have no idea where to look. > > Any and all suggestions will be appreciated. > > Thanks, > > Arnold Robbins > (Gawk maintainer) Arnold, on a not very fast laptop, using the last source package I have: $ time cygport gawk-4.0.1-1.cygport compile real 2m59.539s user 1m52.266s sys 1m34.082s $ time cygport gawk-4.0.1-1.cygport check real 1m53.997s user 0m25.064s sys 1m3.221s so it seems a specific issue on your machine. Likely some type of http://cygwin.com/faq/faq.using.html#faq.using.bloda usually an antivirus one.... see also http://cygwin.com/problems.html Regards Marco -- 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