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Re: Very slow Cygwin startup on Windows 7
- From: Andrey Repin <anrdaemon at yandex dot ru>
- To: Corinna Vinschen <cygwin at cygwin dot com>, cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2015 22:45:27 +0300
- Subject: Re: Very slow Cygwin startup on Windows 7
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Greetings, Corinna Vinschen!
> Hi Andrey,
> On Feb 10 03:05, Andrey Repin wrote:
>> [...]
>> If you are accepting suggestions, and up for some experimentation, try this:
>>
>> # getent passwd $(id -u) > /etc/passwd
>> # getent group $(id -G) > /etc/group
>> # echo -e "#\npasswd: files db\ngroup: files db\n" > /etc/nsswitch.conf
>>
>> and start bash without cygserver running. Just for test.
>> The idea is to have "your" groups in files so that in simple case of (just
>> startup" Cygwin don't have to talk to DC all too much. If at all.
>>
>> You'd still need to run cygserver to benefit from long-time caching, though.
> Do you feel up to the task to extend the FAQ entry
> https://cygwin.com/faq/faq.html#faq.using.startup-slow
> with a description of your solution?
Sure, if that was really a solution. I'd prefer to hear from Dennis first.
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WBR,
Andrey Repin (anrdaemon@yandex.ru) 12.02.2015, <22:44>
Sorry for my terrible english...
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