>> Well, nsswitch.conf was a good suggestion - I'd left it as the default >> (which is empty), but I added a 'files' entry and it came good again. >> Changing the passwd and group entries to 'files db' makes it very slow >> again. > >Limit the number of entries that Cygwin fetches from the DC. Also, >starting a cygserver would help. > >> Not sure what changed here, I have a very good connection to my DC, >> but obviously something wrong here now. > >You may be surprised at how slow a DC really can be when it sees some >load, regardless of connection speed when you try to fetch several >thousand entries. If I were to try a 'mkpasswd -d' on our DC I'd >usually have to wait about an hour with very little network traffic to >show (the resulting file would be about 4MiB). > > >Regards, >Achim.
Thanks Achim - I've recreated my passwd and group files to be sure. I checked some domain lookups and they take a second or two for each entry - quite slow. So, I'll leave nsswitch where it is for now and I've started cygserver. But I'm just wondering how this failed after I updated - I was using it successfully 30 mins previously. I've had it configured this way for years. Thanks for the assistance and explanations. Cheers Dennis -- 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
