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How long should it take Cygwin to load?
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Mar 15, 20263936 viewsConfidence Score0%
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I recently downloaded Cygwin so I could easily use gcc. It installed correctly, and gcc compiles programs and reports errors as expected... but I can't help but notice that it appears to be taking an extremely long time to load the environment each time I run cygwin. Whenever I run Cygwin, it takes…
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It should only take a few seconds. Have you got bash-completion installed? Starting that can really slow things down, especially if network drives are involved as well. Either uninstall the package or move its startup script out of /etc/postinstall.…
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