Mail Archives: cygwin/2005/09/13/21:46:26
Greetings To All,
We've been using Cygwin for many years to host our software build
system on Win32. The system is built on top of gmake. We use the
same gmake system on MacOSX, Linux, and Solaris. Building under
Cygwin has always been slower than on true *nix platforms. This is
expected, and we've lived with it with little problem.
In the last year or so, however, the Cygwin port has gotten slower
and slower, to the point that building the PC version of our software
is PAINFUL. We've been changing the system, so maybe it's due to
something we've added, but the other platforms remain speedy. This
leads me to two flavors of questions for the group...
1) How can I tell what Cygwin is doing? Is there a tool that will
tell me what tool is actually running at any given time? Is there
any way to tell what Cygwin is doing down in its guts? Does anyone
have any other suggestions as to how I might get to the bottom of this?
2) Has anyone else experienced speed problems with Cygwin? Has
anybody else felt that Cygwin has gotten slower over the last year or
so? Are there any guidelines or "tricks" for getting Cygwin to run
faster?
Thanks in advance for any feedback that might help me speed up my
builds.
Steve Johnson
Equilibrium
PS: In case anyone wonders...we run the Mickeysoft compiler on Win
rather than GCC. We run GCC everywhere else. This isn't the problem
though, because even non-compile ops (installation, testing, doc
building, etc) are way slow now under Cygwin.
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