Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Setup.exe -- Something Completely Different From: Robert Collins To: Randall R Schulz Cc: cygwin@cygwin.com In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.2.20020909072032.035a7cc0@pop3.cris.com> References: <5.1.0.14.2.20020909072032.035a7cc0@pop3.cris.com> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-14prxs6FYZQPXhRGun30" Date: 10 Sep 2002 08:29:44 +1000 Message-Id: <1031610584.11225.16.camel@lifelesswks> Mime-Version: 1.0 --=-14prxs6FYZQPXhRGun30 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, 2002-09-10 at 00:41, Randall R Schulz wrote: > Hi, >=20 > Running Cygwin Setup.exe seems to have the effect of flushing my system's= =20 > disk cache (I'm on Win2K Pro SP3 with 512 megabytes of RAM). In the=20 > aftermath using other applications necessitates lots of in-paging and fil= e=20 > system cache reconstruction so they're very sluggish at first. This sympt= om=20 > may be exacerbated by the fact that I keep all the packages cached locall= y=20 > (source and binary) and installed (binary only). >=20 > Are there options in the Windows I/O API that would allow Setup.exe to=20 > bypass the system's disk cache when doing its MD5 checksum validation I/O= ? There are for NT, I'm not sure about 9x. Also, we're using the C library routines by and large at the moment, so that isn't an easy thing to test. Rob --=-14prxs6FYZQPXhRGun30 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQA9fSDXI5+kQ8LJcoIRAvpyAJ4sQSJ3ljJugtH8W8VH+qmP5r2kzACfbig2 8RadC5ZG6k//bntkvs1oUIk= =kMSr -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-14prxs6FYZQPXhRGun30--