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From:	Ralf Habacker <ralf DOT habacker AT freenet DOT de>
To:	cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject:	Re: Serious performance problems (new snapshot has some performance improvement)
Date:	Tue, 31 May 2005 13:29:52 +0200
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Cc:	"Gerrit P. Haase" <gerrit AT familiehaase DOT de>
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Am Dienstag, 31. Mai 2005 12:42 schrieb Gerrit P. Haase:
> Ralf Habacker wrote:
> 
> 
> >>>>Interesting, why is it faster when running a binary that doesn't
> >>>>depend on cygwin1.dll after swapping the DLL?  Some Win caching 
mechanism?
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>I recognized this caching behavior with KDE/cygwin too. Under  
> >>>http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/kde-cygwin/tools/fillmem/ there is 
a 
> >>>tool, which could be used to minimize this influcence by clearing this 
> > 
> > cache. 
> > 
> >>>See the README for more informations. 
> >>
> >>GlobalMemoryStatusEx is only available on Win2k and WinXP.
> >>
> > 
> > Does anyone know a similar function under win9x  ? 
> 
> Danny Smith wrote a replacement:
> 
> http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2003-02/msg02045.html
> 
Thanks for this pointer. I've incorporated this function into fillmem. 

Ralf 



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