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From:	"Wm. David Bentlage" <slomium+cygwin AT gmail DOT com>
Date:	Tue, 27 Jan 2015 14:22:01 -0600
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Subject:	Re: Performance of rm -rf
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Doug,

On Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 1:23 PM, Douglas Coup wrote:

> For example, deleting a 1.79 Gb directory tree with the DOS rmdir /s command takes less than 1 minute.  The same deletion
> with the Cygwin rm -rf command takes 16 minutes.

I've noticed something similar -- that the DOS copy command is much
faster than the Cygwin cp command.  It was only around a factor of 2
difference though.  See the following:

https://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2013-09/msg00389.html

Maybe the two issues are related?

My impression is that cp, ls, and rm are all significantly slower than
their Windows equivalents.  I don't have the ability to fix these
myself but would definitely appreciate performance improvements as I
have many Tb of data that I'm working with.

Thanks,
Dave

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