rspec users - Oct 2006 - DRb delays using rails_spec_server?

I''ve been successfully using rails_spec_server for some time.  Somehow,
in the process of deleting and recreating my rspec directory a few times 
for SVN (or, less believably, in the process of building SVN 1.4.0 and 
its dependencies), something got hosed.  Now, script/rails_spec takes 
5-10 seconds to get past DRb.start_server.  This is on a fast Windows 
machine under cygwin.

Anyone ever run into this?  strace is way too voluminous to help here.

Jay Levitt