Sudden speed drop in compiler

[CuriousKit]

So this one is really confusing me.

I haven't installed any updates to Lazarus or the Free Pascal compiler, but suddenly it is several orders of magnitude slower, even for very small projects.  The last thing I remember doing before it lost speed was to update Java for the web browser.  Though not a bug per se, it is highly irritating because it takes several minutes just to compile a small file.  I've done all the usual things like restarting the computer and excluding the Lazarus directories from my antivirus, but to no avail.

Has anyone else experienced this problem and know of the cause and/or solution?

[Leledumbo]

Lemme guess: Windows?

[CuriousKit]

Sorry, that was way below my standard of bug reporting - guess it gives away my frustration.

Yes, Windows 8.1, using the 32-bit version of Lazarus and the compiler.  Version number for Lazarus is 1.6, and FPC version 3.0.0, SVN revision 51630.

[marcov]

Check which processes are active (high CPU/high disk) in taskmgr when this is happening?

The behaviour still sounds like an antivirus.

[CuriousKit]

Actually, it seems to be an issue with other programs starting up as well.  Task Manager isn't revealing much, except that a number of system processes seem to be more active than they should me (mostly in the disk department).  Still a mystery though - I'll keep working on it.  Sorry to jump to conclusions.

[Leledumbo]

The behaviour still sounds like an antivirus.

Indeed that's my guess as well.