On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 9:59 PM, Adam Kessel <ajkes...@gmail.com> wrote: > Now I'm really confused. > > cygwin was very slow -- then I killed Dropbox, and it sped back up. > But after a while it reverted to slow again (without Dropbox > restarting). I've repeated this behavior with a few other tasks--same > thing happened with Google Desktop and Skydrive. I'm not sure it > actually matters which task I kill -- but killing them will speed > things up for a bit and then it seems to revert to very slow again, > even if the tasks aren't restarted. > > Can anyone offer a way to narrow/isolate the cause here? Is the above > behavior consistent with any hypothesis?
Was running very slowly; just closed Google Chrome and it got fast again. Then re-opened Chrome and slow again. So it really doesn't seem to matter what program it is. Adam -- 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
