Mail Archives: cygwin/2006/05/25/10:24:41
Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:
> mwoehlke wrote:
>> I'm trying to run some scripts off of a slow network share, and it
>> takes *forever* in Cygwin (it's OK in Interix).
>>
>> Looking at an strace (attached) via 'sort -n' shows a LOT of time
>> being spent in read(), apparently just after (caused by?) an fstat(),
>> which means this feels like an inefficiency somewhere in Cygwin's
>> POSIX emulation. Other than "RTFSC", does anyone have any ideas what I
>> could do (workarounds, etc) so that I can run scripts in a reasonable
>> amount of time? (Might this have anything to do with my share being
>> non-writable?)
>
> Take a look at the -x, -E, and -X flags of 'mount'. Perhaps these will help
> you.
Hmm, those are mutually contradictory... guess I'll "experiment". Out of
curiosity, what are any of these expected to do?
>> Sorry for the .bz2, but 248k seemed a little excessive :-).
>
> And actually sending unsolicited straces to the list is discouraged.
Sorry, didn't know that... it seemed relevant.
>> Somewhat OT, why does 'strace bash -c foo > /foo_strace' generate a
>> file with DOS line-endings? None of my mounts are 'textmode'...
>
> 'strace' does not use cygwin1.dll.
Ah, makes sense, thanks.
--
Matthew
...Ruthlessly beating Windows with a hammer until it looks like POSIX.
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