Re: System is sluggish when using cygwin...

[Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd at yahoo dot com>]

--- "Stucky, Mark B.           UTRC" <StuckyMB@utrc.utc.com> wrote:
> 
> I've been using the b20 version on my machine at home (Win98) for about
> a year now.  Generally everything was working just fine, but sometime in
> the last month (or two) I started noticing that the whole system would
> "slow" down and become sluggish whenever I was compiling.  For example,
> after starting a make in an rxvt window, the mouse would then be very
> slow to respond.
> 

Do you have a Virus Scanner running?  Do/did you update the virus database? 
All of the slow downs I've noticed happen because the Virus Scanner is running.

Also, were you using snapshots with b20?

> Thinking that upgrading to the latest version might help, I installed
> the 1.1.2 version last week.  However, I still see the same behavior
> with the new version.  Last night I noticed that the system clock also
> seems to be running slow, but I haven't verified that this behavior
> is related to cygwin.
> 

Try disableing the Virus Scanner and see if that helps.

> I know that I should probably include some "cygcheck" output and
> probably some other info (that I just can't think of at the moment),
> but I'm posting this from work...   
> 

May have helped, however you can also look at it yourself and search the
archives for responses I've made to the cygcheck output of others.

Cheers,

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   Earnie Boyd: <mailto:earnie_boyd@yahoo.com>
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