* Re: Cygwin extremely slow after updating from 1.5.1 to 1.7.5
2010-07-12 1:32 Cygwin extremely slow after updating from 1.5.1 to 1.7.5 Jet Thompson
@ 2010-07-12 1:44 ` Huang Bambo
2010-07-12 15:45 ` Jet Thompson
2010-07-12 3:56 ` Larry Hall (Cygwin)
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From: Huang Bambo @ 2010-07-12 1:44 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: cygwin
Use "strace ls" and "strace -t ls" and attach the output first.
2010/7/12 Jet Thompson <jet@whidbey.com>
>
> It is now taking over 30 seconds for bash to come up,
> whereas in 1.5 it would take 1-2 seconds.
>
> Doing an ls of my ~ directory takes 5 seconds.
>
> Running a cucumber test takes 5-6 minutes.
>
> Any idea what could be causing this?
>
> At this point, I can not use Cygwin for development.
> Not feasible to use such a slow environment.
>
> Hope someone may have some good ideas.
> I am using an older XP machine, but still it is
> dual 2.8 Xeon processors, 800MHz bus, 7200rpm
> sata hard drive with 8MB cache. It is painful
> to see such dismal performance.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Jet
>
>
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* Re: Cygwin extremely slow after updating from 1.5.1 to 1.7.5
2010-07-12 1:32 Cygwin extremely slow after updating from 1.5.1 to 1.7.5 Jet Thompson
2010-07-12 1:44 ` Huang Bambo
@ 2010-07-12 3:56 ` Larry Hall (Cygwin)
2010-07-12 15:59 ` Jet Thompson
2010-07-12 16:15 ` Matthias Andree
2010-07-12 23:15 ` Jet Thompson
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From: Larry Hall (Cygwin) @ 2010-07-12 3:56 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: cygwin
On 7/11/2010 9:00 PM, Jet Thompson wrote:
> It is now taking over 30 seconds for bash to come up,
> whereas in 1.5 it would take 1-2 seconds.
>
> Doing an ls of my ~ directory takes 5 seconds.
>
> Running a cucumber test takes 5-6 minutes.
>
> Any idea what could be causing this?
>
> At this point, I can not use Cygwin for development.
> Not feasible to use such a slow environment.
>
> Hope someone may have some good ideas.
> I am using an older XP machine, but still it is
> dual 2.8 Xeon processors, 800MHz bus, 7200rpm
> sata hard drive with 8MB cache. It is painful
> to see such dismal performance.
This is typically the result of <http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#BLODA>.
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>> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation.
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* Re: Cygwin extremely slow after updating from 1.5.1 to 1.7.5
2010-07-12 1:32 Cygwin extremely slow after updating from 1.5.1 to 1.7.5 Jet Thompson
2010-07-12 1:44 ` Huang Bambo
2010-07-12 3:56 ` Larry Hall (Cygwin)
@ 2010-07-12 16:15 ` Matthias Andree
2010-07-12 16:36 ` Jet Thompson
2010-07-12 23:15 ` Jet Thompson
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From: Matthias Andree @ 2010-07-12 16:15 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: cygwin
Am 12.07.2010 03:00, schrieb Jet Thompson:
> It is now taking over 30 seconds for bash to come up,
> whereas in 1.5 it would take 1-2 seconds.
>
> Doing an ls of my ~ directory takes 5 seconds.
>
> Running a cucumber test takes 5-6 minutes.
>
> Any idea what could be causing this?
Virus, Spyware and similar scanners, and broken software.
> At this point, I can not use Cygwin for development.
> Not feasible to use such a slow environment.
>
> Hope someone may have some good ideas.
> I am using an older XP machine, but still it is
> dual 2.8 Xeon processors, 800MHz bus, 7200rpm
> sata hard drive with 8MB cache. It is painful
> to see such dismal performance.
ls isn't representative, as it uses stat() which is painfully slow on Cygwin.
If bash is slow to start, see if uninstalling bash-completion fixes it.
For me it helped quite a bit.
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* Re: Cygwin extremely slow after updating from 1.5.1 to 1.7.5
2010-07-12 1:32 Cygwin extremely slow after updating from 1.5.1 to 1.7.5 Jet Thompson
` (2 preceding siblings ...)
2010-07-12 16:15 ` Matthias Andree
@ 2010-07-12 23:15 ` Jet Thompson
2010-07-13 5:54 ` Andy Koppe
3 siblings, 1 reply; 9+ messages in thread
From: Jet Thompson @ 2010-07-12 23:15 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: cygwin
Jet Thompson <jet <at> whidbey.com> writes:
>
> It is now taking over 30 seconds for bash to come up,
> whereas in 1.5 it would take 1-2 seconds.
Above fixed by removing bash-completion
> Doing an ls of my ~ directory takes 5 seconds.
Above fixed by removing bash-completion
> Running a cucumber test takes 5-6 minutes.
>
> Any idea what could be causing this?
I have installed spork.
Time is now 45.2 seconds running Cucumber from
within e text editor.
Time is 32 seconds running Cucumber from the command
line (bash).
Is this the best I should expect from running Cucumber within
Cygwin, or is something still out of whack with my environment?
It seems that the people doing the same under Linux or on Mac
have times like 3-4 seconds.
I did check the list of programs that could be interfering with
Cygwin. Removed Sonic DLA, the only one I had installed that was
on the list. However, I did not notice any change. I am running
Kaspersky, but it was not on the list, and I did not notice any
difference when it was disabled.
Any ideas for improving performance deeply appreciated
Cheers,
Jet
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* Re: Cygwin extremely slow after updating from 1.5.1 to 1.7.5
2010-07-12 23:15 ` Jet Thompson
@ 2010-07-13 5:54 ` Andy Koppe
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From: Andy Koppe @ 2010-07-13 5:54 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: cygwin
On 12 July 2010 23:48, Jet Thompson wrote:
>> Running a cucumber test takes 5-6 minutes.
>>
>> Any idea what could be causing this?
>
> I have installed spork.
>
> Time is now 45.2 seconds running Cucumber from
> within e text editor.
>
> Time is 32 seconds running Cucumber from the command
> line (bash).
>
> Is this the best I should expect from running Cucumber within
> Cygwin, or is something still out of whack with my environment?
"Spork"? "Cucumber"? Neither of those are either Cygwin packages or
widely known programs, so a bit of context would have been nice.
They're certainly not supported on this list.
Do they fork lots of processes? In that case, the answer might well be yes.
Otherwise, are any network drives involved in your setup? Those can be
rather slow with Cygwin.
Andy
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