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: Fri, 11 Jun 2004 15:10:31 -0500 From: Brian Ford Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com To: fergus@bonhard.uklinux.net cc: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: wish84: incredibly slow In-Reply-To: <200406081540.i58FeTgN014167@mailgw01.flightsafety.com> Message-ID: References: <200406081540.i58FeTgN014167@mailgw01.flightsafety.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-IsSubscribed: yes On Tue, 8 Jun 2004, fergus wrote: > I have been using Cygwin on a very slow Toshiba. By which I mean one can > sometimes wait 1 or 2 or 3 secs for what appears instantaneous on other > machines. But wish84 requires geological time to respond, as in: > > -- at the bash or rxvt or xterm prompt: > > $ wish # delay 25 secs for panel to appear > $ wish # delay 25 secs for panel to appear > $ wish # delay 5 secs for panel to appear > > and thereafter, 5 secs' delay. > > Incidentally, I might have understood "all responses slow", "all responses > fast", "1st slow, subsequent fast" but I find "1st and 2nd responses slow, > subsequent fast" extremely odd? > > I have tried strace -o wish.log /bin/wish84 but get a file an amazing 7000 > lines long. In any case, I'm not asking you to crack my problems for me, I'm > just wondering at this stage whether a wish84 expert can say "Yes, that's > the way wish84 behaves and must behave: on an old machine the time lag is > accentuated". Sort wish.log on the first colum and see what calls took the longest delta. -- Brian Ford Senior Realtime Software Engineer VITAL - Visual Simulation Systems FlightSafety International the best safety device in any aircraft is a well-trained pilot... -- 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/