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Re: Slow/sluggish response ("system" task at 50%)
Gene Smith wrote:
Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote, On 06/22/2009 08:08 PM:
There's also 1.7 - <http://cygwin.com/#beta-test>
1.7 seems to fix it. It now takes 34 seconds as compared to 14 minutes
with cygwin-1.5. (But I suspect that a fresh install of 1.5 might
produce similar or better results.)
At some point, 1.5 started getting slow for me. I don't know (yet) what
caused it. I still have the conflict with winavr using 1.7 so I don't
think that is it.
Someone on a list mention about "home directory" affecting cygwin speed.
I do notice that on 1.7-beta $HOME is /home/smited (under
c:\cygwin-1.7\). While on my 1.5 $HOME is /cygdrive/c/Documents and
Settings/smited. Somehow 1.5 points $HOME to the existing windows "home"
while 1.7 points $HOME to a new and almost empty directory under
c:\cygwin-1.7. Does this matter at all?
Depends on how much "cruft" has built up in your "Windows" home directory.
While this does get pretty "trashy" IMO, I don't think the typical build-up
of Windows junk there would seriously impact performance, unless this
somehow became a network directory reference at some point. And I think
if just pointing at the home directory Windows uses were a general issue,
we'd hear allot more about it on this list. But I can't say for sure
something in your case isn't causing the problem you were seeing.
I suppose if you're real curious about it, you can try pointing your
new 1.7 install to it and see if things revert to the nostalgic slow-boat
that you've become accustomed to. ;-)
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