X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <4474FCB5.9070906@cygwin.com> Date: Wed, 24 May 2006 20:39:17 -0400 From: "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051223 Fedora/1.5-0.2.fc4.remi Thunderbird/1.5 Mnenhy/0.7.3.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: slow share = slow scripts? References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 mwoehlke wrote: > I'm trying to run some scripts off of a slow network share, and it takes > *forever* in Cygwin (it's OK in Interix). > > Looking at an strace (attached) via 'sort -n' shows a LOT of time being > spent in read(), apparently just after (caused by?) an fstat(), which > means this feels like an inefficiency somewhere in Cygwin's POSIX > emulation. Other than "RTFSC", does anyone have any ideas what I could > do (workarounds, etc) so that I can run scripts in a reasonable amount > of time? (Might this have anything to do with my share being non-writable?) Take a look at the -x, -E, and -X flags of 'mount'. Perhaps these will help you. > Sorry for the .bz2, but 248k seemed a little excessive :-). And actually sending unsolicited straces to the list is discouraged. > Somewhat OT, why does 'strace bash -c foo > /foo_strace' generate a file > with DOS line-endings? None of my mounts are 'textmode'... > 'strace' does not use cygwin1.dll. -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 838 Washington Street (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 -- 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/