Kde2/cygwin awfully slow on Windows XP

Corey McGuire kde-cygwin@mail.kde.org
Mon, 27 Jan 2003 21:32:30 -0800


Awsome!!! I am glad I could help!

Yeah, I can blue screen an NT4 system by piping the right programs together=
 (win32 command line, not just cygwin) when virus scan is enabled...

I don't know what it is doing, I don't know how Unix works at the low=
 level, though I can wager guess... I just know that Unix uses simple=
 commands and strings them together to perform complex functions, and=
 windows apps, like virus scanners, were made for the world of monolithic=
 programs... virus scanners like to watch active programs, and the Unix=
 world bombards the poor scanners with lots of them...

That's my layman observation...

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On 1/27/2003 at 11:05 PM Bob Tanner wrote:

>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...
>>
>> virus scanners hate the way "*NIX" works.  Dozens of executable tied
>> together with pipes, sockets, shoestrings, what have you.  Even the most
>> 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
>only 
>use cygwin as a compile platform I just assumed XP was slow :-)
>
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