At 06:52 AM 4/13/2005, you wrote: >Hi all > >I've been trying to understand why startup and certain commands of my >cygwin installation are very slow, and it seems to come down to the >pipes. For instance, this command: > >$ time cat /etc/motd |cat >Fanfare!!! >You are successfully logged in to this server!!! > >real 0m9.744s >user 0m0.000s >sys 0m0.000s > >takes nearly 10 seconds! 'ls -l |sort' takes 9.76 seconds. Another contrast: >sort /etc/profile: 0.019 seconds. cat /etc/profile: 0.020 seconds. cat >/etc/profile | sort: 40.5 seconds! > >Does anyone have any clues as to what could be causing this? The cygwin >I'm using is the latest installed from the mirror at ftp://ftp.is.co.za. >Output of cygcheck -s -v -r attached.
Actually, you ran with Cygwin 1.5.13 for this test despite the fact that you actually installed 1.5.14 via 'setup.exe' the last time you ran it. But I expect that's of little consequence. I could not reproduce the problem on W2K Pro or XP Pro with either 1.5.13 or the latest snapshot (4/12). I don't see anything obviously wrong with your configuration but there's something going on here. Do you have a local copy of 'sort' in your '/usr/local/bin'? -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 838 Washington Street (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
