Faster rsync?

2023-08-29 Thread Adam Kessel via Cygwin
I've found rsync to be painfully slow on large folders -- hours to sync thousands of files, even when they already match size and --size-only is used. It's much faster between native Linux boxes. Is there any trick to improving performance? I've been looking for a native version for Windows,

Re: bash very slow in cygwin 1.7.16-1 Win7/64 bit

2012-10-04 Thread Adam Kessel
On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 6:04 AM, Andrey Repin anrdae...@freemail.ru wrote: This suggest that you're looking into wrong direction, and real culprit is something you didn't caught yet. Try HijackThis http://sourceforge.net/projects/hjt/ to see if there's any suspicious handlers installed in your

Re: bash very slow in cygwin 1.7.16-1 Win7/64 bit

2012-10-01 Thread Adam Kessel
On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 9:33 AM, jojelino jojel...@gmail.com wrote: if the SkyDrive is trademark of M$ and if it needs network connection to remote server, it would piss you off like you have been experienced. If it is the case, please stop using *Skydrive* mounted directory as home directory

Re: bash very slow in cygwin 1.7.16-1 Win7/64 bit

2012-10-01 Thread Adam Kessel
On Sun, Sep 30, 2012 at 4:43 PM, Adam Rosi-Kessel a...@rosi-kessel.org wrote: Cygwin used to run very quickly for me; now it doesn't. Not sure when it stopped -- last few weeks. Another data point: I just did a completely fresh (i.e. from scratch) local drive bare-bones installation (just

Re: bash very slow in cygwin 1.7.16-1 Win7/64 bit

2012-10-01 Thread Adam Kessel
On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 12:01 PM, Earnie Boyd ear...@users.sourceforge.net wrote: You've not excluded any other changes in your environment. What network mapped devices do you have? Are they still available. If not the system will wait for the network timeout to occur before moving to the

Re: bash very slow in cygwin 1.7.16-1 Win7/64 bit

2012-10-01 Thread Adam Kessel
On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 12:01 PM, Gregory M. Turner g...@malth.us wrote: Did you at least try chainging your ${HOME} to somewhere normal and seeing what happens? Perhaps SkyDrive has some feature that makes Cygwin crazy. For example, your cygwin could have inotify listeners on ${HOME} which

Re: bash very slow in cygwin 1.7.16-1 Win7/64 bit

2012-10-01 Thread Adam Kessel
On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 12:44 PM, Bill Ross bill.r...@xoom.com wrote: Just in case: do you have bash completions turned on? If so, try turning them off. Probably a different issue, but it's the other case of bash slowness that's come up in the last year or so. Yes, I uninstalled the completion

Re: bash very slow in cygwin 1.7.16-1 Win7/64 bit

2012-10-01 Thread Adam Kessel
On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 12:39 PM, Ken Brown kbr...@cornell.edu wrote: Did you at least try chainging your ${HOME} to somewhere normal and seeing what happens? Perhaps SkyDrive has some feature that makes Cygwin crazy. For example, your cygwin could have inotify listeners on ${HOME} which

Re: bash very slow in cygwin 1.7.16-1 Win7/64 bit

2012-10-01 Thread Adam Kessel
On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 1:27 PM, Ken Brown kbr...@cornell.edu wrote: In a standard Cygwin install, the script /etc/postinstall/000-cygwin-post-install.sh runs 'mkpasswd -l -c /etc/passwd', which sets the home directory for each user. Normally this is /home/username, but you can check it by

Re: bash very slow in cygwin 1.7.16-1 Win7/64 bit

2012-10-01 Thread Adam Kessel
On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 1:32 PM, Adam Kessel ajkes...@gmail.com wrote: specified in /etc/passwd) if it doesn't exist. This assumes that HOME is not set in the Windows environment. Are you seeing something different? Yes. I just installed from scratch -- download setup.exe and specify a new

Re: bash very slow in cygwin 1.7.16-1 Win7/64 bit

2012-10-01 Thread Adam Kessel
On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 1:50 PM, Ken Brown kbr...@cornell.edu wrote: Two people in this thread have suggested that you check for BLODA, but you haven't responded to that. Also, you haven't yet attached cygcheck output as requested at OK, now this is strange -- I thought I had checked BLODA

Re: bash very slow in cygwin 1.7.16-1 Win7/64 bit

2012-10-01 Thread Adam Kessel
On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 6:05 PM, Adam Kessel ajkes...@gmail.com wrote: OK, now this is strange -- I thought I had checked BLODA (responded in separate thread about ESET), but just now I killed a bunch of things in my systray, and suddenly cygwin was fast again. Then I restarted all of the tasks

Re: bash very slow in cygwin 1.7.16-1 Win7/64 bit

2012-10-01 Thread Adam Kessel
On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 8:45 PM, Adam Kessel ajkes...@gmail.com wrote: So after a reboot--still fast. This is after a month or so of slowness. But I didn't change anything about my configuration! Now I'm really confused. cygwin was very slow -- then I killed Dropbox, and it sped back up

Re: bash very slow in cygwin 1.7.16-1 Win7/64 bit

2012-10-01 Thread Adam Kessel
On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 9:59 PM, Adam Kessel ajkes...@gmail.com wrote: Now I'm really confused. cygwin was very slow -- then I killed Dropbox, and it sped back up. But after a while it reverted to slow again (without Dropbox restarting). I've repeated this behavior with a few other tasks--same