Anthony Foglia wrote: > Has anyone else experienced long load times for bash/cygwin.bat > when running ZoneAlarm Security Suite? And if so, do you have any ideas > how to speed it up? With ZoneAlarm shut down, I get a bash prompt in > under 2 seconds. With ZoneAlarm running, it takes over a full minute.
Horrible. That's a perfect example of why I can't stand these software firewalls that put their hooks throughout the whole system. Try disabling all the real-time scanning stuff. > I believe it is the "On-Access" virus scanning. Are other virus > scanners as bad? What software do people recommend for firewall and virus > protection to use with cygwin? You might be interested in the thread that starts here: <http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2005-06/msg00815.html> Brian -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
