Mail Archives: cygwin/2001/11/30/09:55:56
I picked this old thread from Oct 2000!!!
Tim reports that cygwin falls short by
performance compared to linux box by a
factor of 2 using lmbench. Is it still
the case? Or have things improved since
Oct 13(Unlucky date!! ;)??
I was trying to compile lmbench 2.0 (Patch 2)
on my cygwin , no luck!!!! I couldnt compile it!
Anyone here has tried it before ?? Any luck?
I would be really interested in a lmbench port
on cygwin! If someone has already done it , please
let me know!
Thanks,
--Piyush
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Re: Cygwin Performance Info
To: <cygwin at sourceware dot cygnus dot com>, "Chris Abbey" <cabbey at
chartermi dot net>
Subject: Re: Cygwin Performance Info
From: "Tim Prince" <tprince at computer dot org>
Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2000 19:12:40 -0700
References: <4 DOT 3 DOT 2 DOT 7 DOT 0 DOT 20001013184237 DOT 00b6cd70 AT pop DOT bresnanlink DOT net>
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When I attempted to run lmbench on this old box both under linux and cygwin,
there were some tests on which cygwin/w2k fell short of linux by a factor of
2 or more (opening files, pipe throughput, and the like), and then there
were the cache statistics on which cygwin beat linux by a small margin. I
was expecting lmbench to become better adapted to cygwin, but I have no news
there.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Chris Abbey" <cabbey AT chartermi DOT net>
To: <cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com>
Sent: Friday, October 13, 2000 4:51 PM
Subject: Re: Cygwin Performance Info
> At 19:23 10/13/00 -0400, Laurence F. Wood wrote:
> >Can someone tell me where the performance hit is in cygwin unix
> >emulation?
>
> whichever part you use the most inside your tightest inner loop.
>
> seriously.
>
> that's a big huge open ended question (not about cygwin, about ANY
> library/platform) that is as specific to your application as you can
> get. For example, if you spend 75% of your computing day manipulating
> text files and piping them and greping them and running file utils
> against them then the cr/lf translation may be a big hit for you.
> On the otherhand if most of your computation in a day is spent answering
> requests that come in on tcp/ip sockets then the remapping of winsock
> to netinet.h functions maybe your major headache. (note, I'm not trying
> to imply that either function has a performance problem, merely that they
> would be representative places that would have high invocation counts
> in the course of the given activity.)
>
> To really answer that for your application/workload then you need to
> get some form of performance detailing that can tell you how much time
> you are spending in any given method and how often it's called.
>
>
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