Faster rsync?

2023-08-29 Thread Adam Kessel via Cygwin
I've found rsync to be painfully slow on large folders -- hours to sync thousands of files, even when they already match size and --size-only is used. It's much faster between native Linux boxes. Is there any trick to improving performance? I've been looking for a native version for Windows, bu

Re: bash very slow in cygwin 1.7.16-1 Win7/64 bit

2012-10-04 Thread Adam Kessel
On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 6:04 AM, Andrey Repin wrote: > This suggest that you're looking into wrong direction, and real culprit is > something you didn't caught yet. > Try HijackThis http://sourceforge.net/projects/hjt/ to see if there's any > suspicious handlers installed in your system. > Or you m

Re: bash very slow in cygwin 1.7.16-1 Win7/64 bit

2012-10-01 Thread Adam Kessel
On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 9:59 PM, Adam Kessel 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

Re: bash very slow in cygwin 1.7.16-1 Win7/64 bit

2012-10-01 Thread Adam Kessel
On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 8:45 PM, Adam Kessel wrote: > So after a reboot--still fast. This is after a month or so of > slowness. But I didn't change anything about my configuration! Now I'm really confused. cygwin was very slow -- then I killed Dropbox, and it sped back up. But

Re: bash very slow in cygwin 1.7.16-1 Win7/64 bit

2012-10-01 Thread Adam Kessel
On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 6:05 PM, Adam Kessel wrote: > OK, now this is strange -- I thought I had checked BLODA (responded in > separate thread about ESET), but just now I killed a bunch of things > in my systray, and suddenly cygwin was fast again. Then I restarted > all of the tasks

Re: bash very slow in cygwin 1.7.16-1 Win7/64 bit

2012-10-01 Thread Adam Kessel
On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 1:50 PM, Ken Brown wrote: > Two people in this thread have suggested that you check for BLODA, but you > haven't responded to that. Also, you haven't yet attached cygcheck output > as requested at OK, now this is strange -- I thought I had checked BLODA (responded in separ

Re: bash very slow in cygwin 1.7.16-1 Win7/64 bit

2012-10-01 Thread Adam Kessel
On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 1:32 PM, Adam Kessel wrote: >> specified in /etc/passwd) if it doesn't exist. This assumes that HOME is >> not set in the Windows environment. Are you seeing something different? > > Yes. I just installed from scratch -- download setup.exe and sp

Re: bash very slow in cygwin 1.7.16-1 Win7/64 bit

2012-10-01 Thread Adam Kessel
On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 1:27 PM, Ken Brown wrote: > In a standard Cygwin install, the script > /etc/postinstall/000-cygwin-post-install.sh runs 'mkpasswd -l -c > > /etc/passwd', which sets the home directory for each user. Normally this is > /home/username, but you can check it by looking at /etc/

Re: bash very slow in cygwin 1.7.16-1 Win7/64 bit

2012-10-01 Thread Adam Kessel
On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 12:39 PM, Ken Brown wrote: >>> Did you at least try chainging your ${HOME} to somewhere normal and >>> seeing >>> what happens? Perhaps SkyDrive has some feature that makes Cygwin crazy. >>> For example, your cygwin could have inotify listeners on ${HOME} which >>> could >>

Re: bash very slow in cygwin 1.7.16-1 Win7/64 bit

2012-10-01 Thread Adam Kessel
On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 12:44 PM, Bill Ross wrote: > Just in case: do you have bash completions turned on? If so, try turning > them off. Probably a different issue, but it's the other case of bash > slowness that's come up in the last year or so. Yes, I uninstalled the completion package entirely

Re: bash very slow in cygwin 1.7.16-1 Win7/64 bit

2012-10-01 Thread Adam Kessel
On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 12:01 PM, Gregory M. Turner wrote: > Did you at least try chainging your ${HOME} to somewhere normal and seeing > what happens? Perhaps SkyDrive has some feature that makes Cygwin crazy. > For example, your cygwin could have inotify listeners on ${HOME} which could Yeah, I

Re: bash very slow in cygwin 1.7.16-1 Win7/64 bit

2012-10-01 Thread Adam Kessel
On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 12:01 PM, Earnie Boyd wrote: > You've not excluded any other changes in your environment. What > network mapped devices do you have? Are they still available. If not > the system will wait for the network timeout to occur before moving to > the next device. Same slowness

Re: bash very slow in cygwin 1.7.16-1 Win7/64 bit

2012-10-01 Thread Adam Kessel
On Sun, Sep 30, 2012 at 4:43 PM, Adam Rosi-Kessel wrote: > Cygwin used to run very quickly for me; now it doesn't. Not sure when it > stopped -- last few weeks. Another data point: I just did a completely fresh (i.e. from scratch) local drive bare-bones installation (just shell, coreutils, etc) i

Re: bash very slow in cygwin 1.7.16-1 Win7/64 bit

2012-10-01 Thread Adam Kessel
On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 9:33 AM, jojelino wrote: > if the SkyDrive is trademark of M$ and if it needs network connection to > remote server, it would piss you off like you have been experienced. > If it is the case, please stop using *Skydrive* mounted directory as home > directory for specific u