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RE: Very slow Cygwin startup on Windows 7
- From: "Dennis Hagarty (dehagart)" <dehagart at cisco dot com>
- To: "cygwin at cygwin dot com" <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2015 11:19:35 +0000
- Subject: RE: Very slow Cygwin startup on Windows 7
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- References: <3FEEC3A37A0B0A48AA326075128C32EE4DC9F0E8 at xmb-rcd-x01 dot cisco dot com> <87mw4nugdx dot fsf at Rainer dot invalid> <3FEEC3A37A0B0A48AA326075128C32EE4DC9F137 at xmb-rcd-x01 dot cisco dot com> <869208266 dot 20150210030528 at yandex dot ru> <3FEEC3A37A0B0A48AA326075128C32EE4EE263B8 at xmb-rcd-x01 dot cisco dot com> <435476431 dot 20150217135513 at yandex dot ru> <3FEEC3A37A0B0A48AA326075128C32EE4EE266FE at xmb-rcd-x01 dot cisco dot com> <455098417 dot 20150218134327 at yandex dot ru>
>>>Could you please do me a favor and repeat the test with a little deviation of
>>>my previous suggestion?
>>>1. Remove /etc/{nsswitch.conf,passwd,group} files. (Rename, move away - by
>>>your choice.)
>>>2. Stop cygserver, if it is running, and any other Cygwin-related programs.
>>>3. Start the mintty (elevated, if need) with write access to /etc. Supposedly,
>>>this will be slow.
>>>4. Make sure id -G lists all the groups you're member of.
>>>The `id -znG | tr "\0" "\n"` would probably be more visible.
>>>5. Repeat the steps from previous suggestion.
>>> getent passwd $(id -u) > /etc/passwd
>>> getent group $(id -G) > /etc/group
>>> printf "%s\n" "passwd: files db" "group: files db" > /etc/nsswitch.conf
>>> 6. Close and restart mintty
>> After I'd run the id -znG, it found 87 groups.
>> Then I did this (even with cygserver running)
>> ~ getent passwd $(id -u) > /etc/passwd
>> ~ getent group $(id -G) > /etc/group
>> 0 [main] getent 48156 transport_layer_pipes::connect: lost connection to cygserver, error = 2
>That prompts to repeat the previous question from Corinna: are you by chance
>remote from your DC? (VPN connection?)
Yes - although it's pretty quick link (and not the other side of the world).
Seems to be a node called \\ADC-AER1-C1-2
Pinging adc-aer1-c1-2.cisco.com [173.xx.xxx.xxx] with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 173.38.200.156: bytes=32 time=36ms TTL=124
Reply from 173.38.200.156: bytes=32 time=44ms TTL=124
Reply from 173.38.200.156: bytes=32 time=37ms TTL=124
Reply from 173.38.200.156: bytes=32 time=56ms TTL=124
>> ~ wc -l /etc/group
>> 58 /etc/group
>
>> Since it seems like cygserver stopped, it took a while to complete.
>> Anyway, with cygserver stopped, I ran the getent again elevated and got 83.
>> ~ wc -l /etc/group
>> 83 /etc/group
>
>83 vs. 87, still not the right number.
>
>> Not really sure how many groups I'm a member of (in another tool), but seems about right.
>Anyway, how was the results after these manipulations?
Performance now is good - as long as the cygserver is running.
With:
>cmd /v:on /c "echo !TIME! & C:\cygwin64\bin\mintty.exe /bin/echo "test" & echo !TIME!"
12:13:43.53
12:13:43.65 = 0:00.12
Without:
C:\Users\dehagart>cmd /v:on /c "echo !TIME! & C:\cygwin64\bin\mintty.exe /bin/echo "test" & echo !TIME!"
12:14:36.28
12:16:24.85 = 1:48.57
Regards
Dennis
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