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 Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2003 17:05:22 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: latest cygcheck -c is expensive Message-ID: <20030908210522.GI27113@redhat.com> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <20030905124047.GD1852@tishler.net> <20030905190127.GB4483@redhat.com> <20030906004249.GO1852@tishler.net> <20030907042805.GA22596@redhat.com> <20030907043021.GA22644@redhat.com> <20030908115016.GC2128@tishler.net> <20030908153621.GE5065@redhat.com> <20030908203203.GE1888@tishler.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030908203203.GE1888@tishler.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i On Mon, Sep 08, 2003 at 04:32:04PM -0400, Jason Tishler wrote: >Chris, > >On Mon, Sep 08, 2003 at 11:36:21AM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: >> On Mon, Sep 08, 2003 at 07:50:16AM -0400, Jason Tishler wrote: >> >BTW, I tried to give cygcheck from the 2003-Sep-08 snapshot a ride. >> >The ChangeLog and diff seem to indicate the required changes have >> >been completed. Unfortunately, my timing showed no difference and >> >objdump showed no dependency on Mingw zlib: >> > >> > $ objdump -p cygcheck.exe | fgrep 'DLL Name:' >> > DLL Name: msvcrt.dll >> > DLL Name: msvcrt.dll >> > DLL Name: ADVAPI32.DLL >> > DLL Name: KERNEL32.dll >> > >> >Is the above cockpit error on my part? >> >> Well, sort of, if you are expecting cygcheck to be linked with a mingw >> zlib DLL. zlib is linked statically. > >Doh! > >> I don't know why you aren't seeing a speedup. It's substantial on my >> system. On my PII 500 at work, the difference is 55 seconds for the >> new cygcheck and 1:29 on the old. That's not as good as my previously >> posted figures but it should still be noticeable. In fact, if you are >> running from a console window you can even see the difference in that >> the title bar doesn't flicker. > >I see a minor speed up (now) -- 1:24 versus 1:18. Note this is on my >laptop. Maybe the disk subsystem is so slow as to dominate the >throughput? In that case, loading gzip.exe once for every package file should have shown a substantial penalty. Maybe you have fewer packages loaded than I do? cgf -- 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/