Mail Archives: cygwin/1998/04/24/15:08:49
Mumit,
Yes, I am using the FAT file system on NT, but the problem does not seem to be that you mentioned below. To me, it seems to be a problem with tar utility. I used the following command to unpack and tar this egcs-1.0.2_tar.gz file. It took me more than 20 hours to do this but still could not finish it.
tar -xvfz egcs-1.0.2_tar.gz.
To fix this problem is easy, just separate this to two steps as follow.
gzip -d -xvfz egcs-1.0.2_tar.gz.
tar -xvf egcs-1.0.2.tar
Thanks,
Gorton
-----Original Message-----
From: Mumit Khan [SMTP:khan AT xraylith DOT wisc DOT edu]
Sent: Friday, April 24, 1998 1:51 AM
To: Gorton Zhao Guo Wei
Cc: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com
Subject: Re: EGCS Win32 gcc compiler wanted
gwzhao AT multiwave DOT com DOT sg (Gorton Zhao Guo Wei) writes:
> I installed the b19.1 to my Pentium 133/32M ram PC together with NT 4.0 (work
> station). I tried to tar (decompress) the EGCS 1.0.2 file (9.5M bytes in size
> ). It took me whole night (about 15 hours) to do this, but it still has not b
> een finished yet. The CPU usage almost stays 100%. It must be something wrong
> ly. Normally, it only took a few minuts to compress a 20M bytes file if used
> a Winzip on the same computer. I guess that I have to turn on or to set some
> flags to this gnu-win32. Does anyone know how to speed up this gnu-win32?
Bet you're using FAT filesystem on NT, right? If so, you're running into
the same old "EA SF" slowdown problem which IMO renders cygwin32 b19.x
useless for any real work. I believe Geoffrey has stated that he will
provide an option to not use extended attributes on NT/FAT, but I haven't
been keeping up with snapshots to know if it's already happened or not.
If you're not using FAT on NT, I can't even guess as to the cause of this
problem.
Mumit
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