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by EvilTerran 5109 days ago
"there's nothing to cause the rot"

The rot tends to set in as I install packages to Cygwin; the more I add, the slower and less stable Cygwin seems to become, to the point of taking tens of seconds to reach a prompt after opening. Make of that what you will.

"Also some antivirus programs can trip up Cygwin"

That could well be a contributing factor in my case.
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cygx 5109 days ago
Did you try disabling bash completion[1]?

[1] http://cfc.kizzx2.com/index.php/tag/cygwin-slow-performance-...

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EvilTerran 5109 days ago
No, I didn't -- good spot, thank you.

I haven't bothered re-installing cygwin since the last nuke-and-pave, but I'll bear that in mind if I do and it's still relevant.

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