On 13 November 2011 18:06, Philip Goetz <philgo...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sun, Nov 13, 2011 at 12:39 PM, Philip Goetz <philgo...@gmail.com> wrote: >> I have a Windows XP system, with a quad-core AMD Phenom II X4 940. >> I re-installed XP about 6 months ago, and have been using Cygwin on it >> ever since. >> Starting yesterday, the Cygwin terminal is extremely slow. >> This has nothing to do with X, or fork, or network mounts (I have none >> anyway). >> When I type a key, it takes about half a second for the letter to appear >> in the Cygwin terminal window. If I keep typing, letters appear >> at about one-fourth the speed that I'm typing, so I get far ahead, >> and it starts dropping letters. It's like working over a slow modem, >> but this is all local. > > The culprit is Endnote X.0.2. I found the Word STARTUP folder (Word: > Tools -> Options -> File locations -> Startup), closed Word, moved the > Zotero.dot files (the Zotero plugin) out of it, re-started Cygwin, > started Word, still slow. > Then I shut Word down, moved the EN10Cwyw files (the EndNote plugin) > out of STARTUP, re-started Word, and Cygwin was slow again.
How very strange for a bibliography manager. Sounds like it's doing some awful hackery. Is the effect Cygwin-specific or do you get it with the Windows command prompt too? Does using mintty or rxvt instead of Cygwin's default console make a difference? Andy -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
