Mail Archives: cygwin/2006/05/25/11:09:05
On 05/25/2006, mwoehlke wrote:
> 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?
They are indeed mutually exclusive. See 'man mount' for an explanation of the
flags. You might want to try -x or -X.
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