On 24/09/2015 18:24, lit...@null.net wrote: >> On 24/09/2015 11:57, lit...@null.net wrote: >>> Obviously something is. The FAQ entry does not mention performance, but >>> real failures. >>> How to further diagnose this? > > I took the plunge and spent almost a full day trying to find the cause. > > 1. Booting into Safe Mode gave a huge performance boost > 2. By eliminating all services and programs in Normal Mode, one-by-one, I > found the offender: > > turns out that Comodo Firewall (Free version) loads a DLL in each process > that is the cause of the delay. > Although I only use the Firewall, and do not use any "AntiVirus" features, > still it causes delay during startup of a process. > > However, after disabling it -- which did speed up process spawning in Bash -- > I encountered the other problem I already had much more often. > For now I consider the issue of slow spawning to be solved > (although it would have been nice if there was an easier way to diagnose it, > maybe with tracing?)
Comodo firewall pro is listed in https://cygwin.com/faq/faq.html#faq.using.bloda. Looks as if the free version should be listed too. -- 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
