Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:
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. ;-)
Since I don't have a "HOME" env var in windows, cygwin is getting the
cygwin HOME from /etc/passwd. So I tried it both ways. With 1.5 I set
home to be the empty directory /home/smited (under c:/cygwin). It didn't
make it any faster. With beta-1.7 I set home to /cygdrive/c/Documents
and Settings/smited (where all the cruft is) and it didn't make it any
slower. So where cygwin points $HOME at terminal startup does not seem
to have an effect for me. Current version 1.5 is slow while beta-1.7 is
fast, for still unknown reasons.
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