From:	rrankin AT primenet DOT com (Rick Rankin)
Subject:	RE: Bash's fork problem solved: slow but it runs !
7 Nov 1998 13:28:12 -0800 :
Message-ID:	<000a01be0927$5229d3c0$9a1e01aa.cygnus.gnu-win32@rankin-isdn-ws2.sat.mot.com>
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To:	"Enoch Wu" <wue AT eskimo DOT com>, <gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com>

Unless you *really* need them, get rid if the network drives in your path.
We found it made things horribly slow, especially if you mistype a command.
Could be our rather badly configured network, though.

--
Rick Rankin
rrankin AT primenet DOT com

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com [mailto:owner-gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com]On
> Behalf Of Enoch Wu
> Sent: Tuesday, November 03, 1998 7:22 PM
> To: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com
> Subject: Bash's fork problem solved: slow but it runs !
>
>
> Hi,
>
> I am happy to be able to run B20 on my office computer !  While
> B19 refused
> to run, now B20 runs pretty well as far as I can tell.
>
> There is perhaps some delay problem in getting the first Bash prompt.  It
> took 50 seconds for the $ prompt to appear after I clicked on the
> CYGNUS icon.
>
> Well, I wish I could show you a test case but I think you guys cannot
> repeat the test on your machine anyway since the problem is likely
> machine/installation dependent.
>
> I do have something to show you, however, in the spirit of software
> testing.  I ran cygcheck as recommended and here is the output with timing
> informarion.  It took 7 minutes to complete cygcheck.  Here is the output
> of cygcheck:
>
>
> ------cut
> here-------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Tue Nov  3 14:34:15  1998
>
> Cygnus Win95/NT Configuration Diagnostics
> Current System Time: Tue Nov 03 14:34:16 1998
>
> Win95 Ver 4.0 build 67109814
>
> Path:	//C/CYGNUS/CYGWIN~1/H-I586~1/BIN
> 	//C/TEXMF/MIKTEX/BIN
> 	//C/WINDOWS
> 	//C/WINDOWS/COMMAND
> 	//C/UTIL
> 	//Z/PUBLIC
> 	//Y.
> 	//X.
> 	//W.
> 	//V.
> 	/bin
>
> SysDir: C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM
> WinDir: C:\WINDOWS
>
> CYGWIN = `tty'
> HOME = `/home'
> MAKE_MODE = `UNIX'
> PWD = `/home'
>
> Use `-r' to scan registry
>
> a:\ fd           N/A    N/A
> c:\ hd  FAT      N/A    N/A CP    UN
> d:\ cd           N/A    N/A
> f:\ net OS2      N/A    N/A CP          FC     SYS
> g:\ net OS2      N/A    N/A CP          FC     VOL1
> h:\ net OS2      N/A    N/A CP          FC     VOL1
> i:\ net OS2      N/A    N/A CP          FC     VOL2
> j:\ net OS2      N/A    N/A CP          FC     VOL1
> l:\ net OS2      N/A    N/A CP          FC     VOL1
> m:\ net OS2      N/A    N/A CP          FC     SYS
> n:\ net OS2      N/A    N/A CP          FC     VOL1
> o:\ net OS2      N/A    N/A CP          FC     VOL1
> q:\ net OS2      N/A    N/A CP          FC     VOL2
> r:\ net OS2      N/A    N/A CP          FC     VOL2
> v:\ net OS2      N/A    N/A CP          FC     VOL1
> w:\ net OS2      N/A    N/A CP          FC     VOL1
> x:\ net OS2      N/A    N/A CP          FC     VOL1
> y:\ net OS2      N/A    N/A CP          FC     VOL1
> z:\ net OS2      N/A    N/A CP          FC     SYS
>
> C:\root\b20  /         native  text!=binary
> \\.\a:       /dev/fd0  native  text!=binary
> \\.\b:       /dev/fd1  native  text!=binary
> \\.\tape0:   /dev/st0  native  text!=binary
> \\.\tape1:   /dev/st1  native  text!=binary
>
> Found: C:\CYGNUS\CYGWIN~1\H-I586~1\BIN\bash.exe
> Found: C:\CYGNUS\CYGWIN~1\H-I586~1\BIN\cat.exe
> Found: C:\UTIL\cat.exe
> Not Found: cpp
> Found: C:\CYGNUS\CYGWIN~1\H-I586~1\BIN\find.exe
> Found: C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND\find.exe
> Found: C:\CYGNUS\CYGWIN~1\H-I586~1\BIN\gcc.exe
> Found: C:\CYGNUS\CYGWIN~1\H-I586~1\BIN\gdb.exe
> Found: C:\CYGNUS\CYGWIN~1\H-I586~1\BIN\ld.exe
> Found: C:\CYGNUS\CYGWIN~1\H-I586~1\BIN\ls.exe
> Found: C:\UTIL\ls.exe
> Found: C:\CYGNUS\CYGWIN~1\H-I586~1\BIN\make.exe
> Found: C:\CYGNUS\CYGWIN~1\H-I586~1\BIN\sh.exe
> Found: C:\root\b20\bin\sh.exe
>
>   371k 1998/11/02 C:\CYGNUS\CYGWIN~1\H-I586~1\BIN\cygtcl80.dll
>     5k 1998/11/02 C:\CYGNUS\CYGWIN~1\H-I586~1\BIN\cygtclpip80.dll
>    10k 1998/11/02 C:\CYGNUS\CYGWIN~1\H-I586~1\BIN\cygtclreg80.dll
>   600k 1998/11/02 C:\CYGNUS\CYGWIN~1\H-I586~1\BIN\cygtk80.dll
>   429k 1998/11/02 C:\CYGNUS\CYGWIN~1\H-I586~1\BIN\cygwin1.dll
> Use -h to see help about each section
> Tue Nov  3 14:41:51  1998
>
> ---------cut here
> please--------------------------------------------------------
>
> Thanks for reading.
>
> Enoch Wu
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