From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 16816 invoked by alias); 1 Dec 2011 15:58:46 -0000 Received: (qmail 16805 invoked by uid 22791); 1 Dec 2011 15:58:45 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.2 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_40,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mailbackend.panix.com (HELO mailbackend.panix.com) (166.84.1.89) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Thu, 01 Dec 2011 15:58:32 +0000 Received: from panix1.panix.com (panix1.panix.com [166.84.1.1]) by mailbackend.panix.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1E1A728171 for ; Thu, 1 Dec 2011 10:58:31 -0500 (EST) Received: by panix1.panix.com (Postfix, from userid 19362) id 2A99014B8D; Thu, 1 Dec 2011 10:58:31 -0500 (EST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by panix1.panix.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 21B8E14B5E for ; Thu, 1 Dec 2011 09:58:31 -0600 (CST) Date: Thu, 01 Dec 2011 15:58:00 -0000 From: Tim McDaniel To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Cygwin slow on x64 systems? Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed 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: 2011-12/txt/msg00006.txt.bz2 I wrote: > $ time echo hello > hello > > real 0m0.000s > user 0m0.000s > sys 0m0.000s > > $ cp /dev/null frog > $ time cat frog > > real 0m1.259s > user 0m0.000s > sys 0m0.015s Someone replied directly to me, to say that Cygwin should not be that slow on 64-bit installations. He asked whether I have anti-virus installed, and whether I have looked at the "BLODA list". BLODA is the Big List Of Dodgy Apps, apparently from http://cygwin.com/faq/faq.using.html#faq.using.bloda 44. What applications have been found to interfere with Cygwin? From time to time, people have reported strange failures and problems in Cygwin and Cygwin packages that seem to have no rational explanation .... Unfortunately, "Norton/McAfee/Symantec antivirus or antispyware" is the second item listed. This is a work machine. IT installed Symantec Endpoint Protection on it and locked down absolutely every setting whatsoever (except for how long to keep local logs). I really doubt that they'd unlock anything for me, especially because I'm brand new and we don't do very much on Windows. Unless someone has another suggestion, maybe I just have to assume I'm SOL. -- Tim McDaniel, tmcd@panix.com -- 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