On 20 August 2010 18:20, Nahor wrote: > On 2010-08-20 7:50, Jeremy Ramer wrote: >> >> After upgrading from cygwin 1.5 to cygwin 1.7 starting a bash shell is >> much slower. It usually takes around 4 seconds before I get a prompt. >> On cygwin 1.5 it was only around 1 second. I captured some logs from >> the startup using this process: >> - Open cmd shell >> cd C:\cygwin\bin >> bash --login -i -x 1> C:\startlog.txt 2>&1 >> >> The log is attached. I don't see anything strange except that it seems >> pretty long. The same process on cygwin 1.5 gives much less output. I >> can provide that log if needed. >> Any ideas? > > It's the loading of all the bashcompletion scripts. Move the directory > /etc/bash_completion.d away and you'll see it's a lot faster.
Perhaps bash completion shouldn't be enabled just by installing it, because lots of people seem to install everything "just in case". Andy -- 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