Subject: Re: Serious performance problems (new snapshot has some performance improvement)
From: Ralf Habacker <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Cc: "Gerrit P. Haase" <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 31 May 2005 13:29:52 +0200

Am Dienstag, 31. Mai 2005 12:42 schrieb Gerrit P. Haase:
> 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
> 
Thanks for this pointer. I've incorporated this function into fillmem. 

Ralf 

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