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 X-Info: This message was accepted for relay by smtp03.mrf.mail.rcn.net as the sender used SMTP authentication X-Trace: UmFuZG9tSVYzF4/5fDJwZzS7s5/ktxTYGpZjhDvqU4j7JZvRIdsiOjO7lLuDmxqj Message-ID: <3F2C0377.4080609@cygwin.com> Date: Sat, 02 Aug 2003 14:31:19 -0400 From: Larry Hall Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@pusspaws.net CC: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: vim speed issue References: <3F2B6994.7000302@pusspaws.net> <3F2BFB61.9090609@cygwin.com> <3F2C00C7.7060703@pusspaws.net> In-Reply-To: <3F2C00C7.7060703@pusspaws.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit David Selby wrote: > > > Larry Hall wrote: > >> David Selby wrote: >> >>> Hello, >>> >>> OK newbe cygwin user here, have read manual + faq ... so not just >>> lept in with a question ! >>> >>> I have a 700MHz PIII 256MB, I have installed cygwin on 98SE. >>> When running it can seem a little slow, ie "man man" takes 2-3 >>> seconds, vim screen ripples as I scroll up. >>> >>> In the FAQ it states that upgrades can have speed problems, This is a >>> new install. >>> >>> Is it a case of cygwin is just another process as far as 98SE is >>> concerned & so only gets a slice of CPU time ? In which case AOK, no >>> probs I can live with it. Or is there something I need to tweak ? >> >> >> >> Yes, cygwin proggies are just other processes, just like Windows >> proggies. Don't know why knowing that would make you feel better >> about the perceived performance problem. But there you are. :-) >> >> I'd suggest reviewing the text at . >> >> Win 9x/Me console output is slow and inefficient, though I think what >> you describe is extreme (don't know for sure since I don't use 9x/Me). >> It may be a configuration issue. One way to narrow things down would be >> to try rxvt instead of the console Window. Many on Win9x/Me use this to >> avoid the console shortcomings. Some use it on NT/W2K/XP too. ;-) See: >> >> Is there a better alternative to the standard console window? >> > > > > Many thanks for getting back to me. I was unsure if it was a config > problem just for me or a general thing. My guess is it cant realy be > that slow, how would it run X ? (If this is a dumb statement bourne of > ignorance of cygwin, forgive me!) > > Anyhow I will try your suggestion and try rxvt, > Thanks once again > Dave Right. vim works great here on the console, but I'm running W2K. -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 838 Washington Street (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/