emacs-x11 takes 30-40 sec to open after upgrading to cygwin-1.7

[Dan Tsafrir]

On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 10:17, Dan Tsafrir <dants@cs.technion.ac.il> wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 17:22, Jon TURNEY <jon.turney@dronecode.org.uk> wrote:
>>
>> [snip]
>> So far it seems that (1) emacs takes a long time to start up (2) xterm
>> starts up quickly.  Are there other X applications that you use and how do
>> they behave?
>
> [snip]
> opening xclock takes nearly 30 seconds (half user time, half system time).
> So, as you speculated, it turns out this is not just an emacs problem.

I wasn't able to strace emacs, but I am able to strace xclock (brining
it up, which when strace-ing takes several long minutes on my netbook,
and then immediately killing it).

The output is at:
http://www.cs.technion.ac.il/~dants/xclock-strace-output.txt.gz

Maybe this would provide a clue.
--Dan

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