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

It creates a dirty log file, use awk.

Answer 2

So I never actually solved this. Got a new computer instead.

Similar problem cropped up there eventually, and the problem was the NVIDIA driver software--not the actual drivers themselves.

So, the path was:

• Install NDIVIA Drivers
• Remove NVIDIA Software from AppWiz.cpl
• Use Hardware Manager to find the .inf files that were left around

Answer 3

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.

Answer 4

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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