Igor Peshansky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 03/28/2007 12:39:15 PM: > On Wed, 28 Mar 2007, Ken Fast wrote: > > > Opening a bash shell has been much slower lately. (New WinXP machine, > > or new cygwin install?) Also, using some simple commands like man is > > terribly slow. In looking through the strace logs for bash, less (the > > slow part of man pages), and more (tried as an alternative to less for > > man pages) I see a 6 or 7 second delay for a search for //.terminfo or > > //.termcap. I am on a network connected machine in a corporate setting, > > so there are a lot of entries at //. A simple ls // comes back in a > > second or two, but searching for //.terminfo is killing me. My TERM > > environment variable is set to cygwin. Why doesn't cygwin look in > > C:/cygwin/usr/share/terminfo/c/cygwin first instead of looking across > > the entire network for .terminfo? > > > > Note: I posted yesterday on another thread about the DLA problem. I > > think it may not be a DLA issue at all, unless DLA is causing this > > global search for terminfo. > >
> > You didn't attach the output of "cygcheck -svr", as requested in > > > Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html > > so I have to ask: what is your HOME set to? If it's set to "/", that > would explain the behavior (although it's arguably a bug in ncurses, since > it should be looking for /.terminfo instead). Try setting your HOME to > something else. And please follow the above "Problem reports" link and > provide the requested information. > Igor > -- > http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ > |\ _,,,---,,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ Igor Peshansky, Ph.D. (name changed!) > |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' old name: Igor Pechtchanski > '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! > > Freedom is just another word for "nothing left to lose"... -- Janis Joplin (See attached file: cygcheck.txt) Yes, my HOME was set to "/". I set it to something else and that fixed the speed problem. However, in my Windows profile HOME is actually set to "C:/cygwin". It is the mount of C:/cygwin on / that resets it to "/". How do I keep HOME pointing to "C:/cygwin" instead of "/", or do I need HOME set at all? Should I keep HOME out of my Windows profile and just put it in .bashrc instead? As for the bug in ncurses, is this a known thing, or a useful thing to pursue? Ken
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