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 Message-ID: <429C3FAF.9000604@familiehaase.de> Date: Tue, 31 May 2005 12:42:55 +0200 From: "Gerrit P. Haase" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ralf Habacker CC: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Serious performance problems (new snapshot has some performance improvement) References: <000b01c563c7$f4456f00$976d65da@DANNY> <200505302322.00623.ralf.habacker@freenet.de> <429C36CF.9050001@familiehaase.de> <200505311229.12307.ralf.habacker@freenet.de> In-Reply-To: <200505311229.12307.ralf.habacker@freenet.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Ralf Habacker wrote: >>>>Interesting, why is it faster when running a binary that doesn't >>>>depend on cygwin1.dll after swapping the DLL? Some Win caching mechanism? >>> >>> >>>I recognized this caching behavior with KDE/cygwin too. Under >>>http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/kde-cygwin/tools/fillmem/ there is a >>>tool, which could be used to minimize this influcence by clearing this > > cache. > >>>See the README for more informations. >> >>GlobalMemoryStatusEx is only available on Win2k and WinXP. >> > > Does anyone know a similar function under win9x ? Danny Smith wrote a replacement: http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2003-02/msg02045.html Gerrit -- =^..^= -- 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/