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 have little experience with this, but I can at least give you my opinion on what it looks like.

I'm seeing lots of [proc_wiater] lines, each at over 5000 ... that's longer than your actual directory listing takes :/ Looks like the problem here is "ls is a program". I bet if you timed dir you'd not notice such a ridiculous time.

-Someone who knows nothing of strace.