Kde2/cygwin awfully slow on Windows XP
Corey McGuire
kde-cygwin@mail.kde.org
Tue, 28 Jan 2003 11:02:07 -0800
Try running Konq from x
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On 1/27/03 at 9:42 PM Cary Wagner wrote:
>Corey,
>
>I did as you suggested, but when I try to run Xwindows my system just
>crawls. I went so far as to completely shut down my McAfee, as I can
never
>tell what the heck it is doing (it's a company standard thing). I have
>done
>the exact same installation on two different machines, yet my other
machine
>doesn't seem to have the same problem. Other than I cannot seem to get
KDE
>to run properly, but at least X comes up and runs fine....
>
>Any other suggestions..... Thanks!
>
>
>Cary
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Corey McGuire [mailto:coreyfro@shargaas.coreyfro.com]
>Sent: Monday, January 27, 2003 21:33
>To: kde-cygwin@mail.kde.org
>Subject: Re: Kde2/cygwin awfully slow on Windows XP
>
>
>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:
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>>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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