How to speed up Cygwin?

Question

I have been running drush scripts (for Drupal) with Cygwin on my relatively fast windows machine, but I still have to wait about a minute for any drush command (spe

Answer 1

You can give Cygwin a higher priority.

Write a new batch file, for example, "cygstart.bat" with the following content:

start "Cygwin" /high C:\cygwin\Cygwin.bat

The /high switch gives the shell a higher process priority.