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-Server-Uuid: 062D48FB-9769-4139-967C-478C67B5F9C9 Content-class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Why is cygwin cvs client so slow? Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2005 18:29:50 -0800 Message-ID: From: "Christopher Warth" To: cygwin@cygwin.com X-OriginalArrivalTime: 05 Jan 2005 02:29:51.0345 (UTC) FILETIME=[6F0BDE10:01C4F2CE] X-WSS-ID: 6DC58EA92347483370-01-01 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id j052V2Jc031676 Can anyone speculate as to why cygwin cvs is so much slower than their native windows equivalents? In short, 'cvs update' using cygwin cvs takes 7-9 times as long to do the same task as a non-cygwin port of cvs from www.cvshome.org/. To update a missing directory that contains almost 3000 files, cygwin cvs takes more than 21 minutes. The 'native' cvs from cvshome.com takes just under 3 minutes to do the same thing on the same file system, from the same server. Details are below. Am I missing some environment variable, like export CVS_GO_FAST="yes"? I hope 700% degradation in performance is too steep a price to pay for unix-like tools. -csw at well dot com # all filesystems are mounted in text mode. # $ mount C:\cygwin\bin on /usr/bin type system (textmode) C:\cygwin\lib on /usr/lib type system (textmode) C:\cygwin on / type system (textmode) c: on /cygdrive/c type system (textmode,noumount) p: on /cygdrive/p type system (textmode,noumount) z: on /cygdrive/z type system (textmode,noumount) # current directory is on am SMB share (served by Samba, I believe) # $ pwd /cygdrive/z/home/user/tot/src/wl # I am using pserver served by a linux box # $ echo $CVSROOT :pserver:user@somemachine:/projects/cvsroot # I have up-to-date packages $ cygcheck -c Cygwin Package Information Package Version Status [...] base-files 3.1-4 OK [...] coreutils 5.2.1-5 OK [...] cvs 1.11.17-1 OK cygutils 1.2.5-1 OK cygwin 1.5.12-1 OK [...] # the cvs from cygwin is version 1.11.17 $ cvs -v Concurrent Versions System (CVS) 1.11.17 (client/server) [...] # remove a directory and let cvs update it again. $ rm -rf locale $ time cvs update -d locale [...2982 files...] real 21m20.478s user 0m7.765s sys 0m38.546s # the cvs from cvshome.com is also version 1.11.17 $ cyclic-cvs -v Concurrent Versions System (CVS) 1.11.17 (client) [...] # remove a directory and let cvs update it again. $ rm -rf locale $ time cyclic-cvs update -d locale [...2982 files...] real 2m55.287s user 0m0.015s sys 0m0.000s -- 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/