Cygwin's bash became extremely slow after errors

Question

I realize there are a few other questions about why Cygwin is apparently slow, but this case seems to be unique.

I had some issues where things were reporting lots of er

Answer 1

I had a similar problem, fixed by removing disconnected network shares.

http://cygwin.com/faq/faq-nochunks.html#faq.using.slow
http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2010-06/msg00510.html (read all replies)

You can look into this as well:

http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#BLODA

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