FAQ 4.2 Why is Cygwin suddenly so slow? (was Re: cygwin very slow under virtual box (productivity hit))

Tue Nov 8 09:33:00 GMT 2011

On Nov 8 00:13, Cyrille Lefevre wrote:
> Le 05/11/2011 00:28, J.V. a Ã©crit :
> >I have Windows XP Pro x32 in a VM with the latest version of cygwin
> >installed.
> >
> >When I open a cygwin bash shell, and type '$ls' it just sits there forever.
>> as usual, plz, remove bash-completion...
>> >FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
>> cygwin.com/faq/faq-nochunks.html#faq.using.slow
>> also, plz, could you complete the FAQ about that, thanks in advance.
>> something like :
>> alternative, remove the bash-completion package if any.

Wouldn't it make more sense to find out what part of the bash-completion
package is the usual culprit and to disable or change this part in a
bash-completion package update?
Corinna
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