Bad performance a common problem?

[Corinna Vinschen]

On Fri, Sep 28, 2001 at 01:26:40PM +0100, Tim Koenig wrote:
> I wrote:
> >Does anyone know the reason and a possible solution [OS is Windows 95]?
> 
> I didn't find out what the problem is on my machine, but testing on two other Windows 95 computers showed that XFree86/Cygwin performance is
> no problem there.                                         
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> Since I normally use Linux and my Windows installation serves as a testbed only, which means that a lot of changes are applied to it into a short
> period of time, I'd blame that for the performance problem. The other two computers had quite fresh installations... I'll reinstall Windows next week 
> and check if that's a cure.
> 
> (My computer is nominally the fastest of the three tested.)

Do you still have //X with X a drive letter paths in $PATH, perhaps?
If so, substitute them by /cygdrive/X.

Corinna

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