Hi Corinne, I found the reason for the long time needed to delete files on my machine: It is fault of the antivirus, but the crazy thing is that the performance is orrible when it is disabled, and reasonable when it is enabled.
The bin filling have no effect, I tried on the home PC, filling the bin with gigabytes and the timing was always 2-3 secs. No difference for the network logon. Snapshot 20070110 Standalone VirusScan Enterprise 8.0.0 On Access Scanner Enabled $ time rm -rf testdir real 0m5.217s user 0m0.120s sys 0m0.951s Standalone VirusScan Enterprise 8.0.O On Access Scanner Disabled $ time rm -rf testdir real 1m40.865s user 0m0.050s sys 0m0.170s Network VirusScan Enterprise 8.0.O On Access Scanner Enabled $ time rm -rf testdir real 0m4.676s user 0m0.150s sys 0m0.791s Network VirusScan Enterprise 8.0.O On Access Scanner Disabled $ time rm -rf testdir real 1m41.125s user 0m0.030s sys 0m0.210s Regards Marco PS: sorry for the broken followup, but I subscribed on yesterday after all your replies. ___________________________________ Vinci i biglietti per FIFA World Cup in Germania! yahoo.it/concorso_messenger -- 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/