Kde2/cygwin awfully slow on Windows XP

[Bob Tanner]

On Monday 27 January 2003 01:48 pm, Corey McGuire wrote:
> I had to exclude cygwin from my "on access scan" for my virus scanner..=
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> virus scanners hate the way "*NIX" works.  Dozens of executable tied
> together with pipes, sockets, shoestrings, what have you.  Even the mos=
t
> pedestrian use of Cygwin, especially when using X, will have your virus
> scanner going in circles.
>
> Take a look at your taskman and see if what I said is true with you.

Wow! This should be an FAQ! This fixed my doggy cygwin stuff too. Since I=
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use cygwin as a compile platform I just assumed XP was slow :-)

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