X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Fri, 1 Sep 2006 11:54:03 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: cygwin fork() Message-ID: <20060901155403.GE5926@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <20060901100138.GA7444@ns1.anodized.com> <20060901153709.GC7663@ns1.anodized.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20060901153709.GC7663@ns1.anodized.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: 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 On Fri, Sep 01, 2006 at 08:37:09AM -0700, clayne@anodized.com wrote: >On Fri, Sep 01, 2006 at 10:33:47AM -0400, Igor Peshansky wrote: >> While Cygwin is an *emulation* layer, and emulation is inherently slower >> than straight execution, there are other potential reasons for the >> slowness. Check your anti-virus and firewall software settings. If >> possible, exclude the Cygwin filesystem from checking by those tools... >> Even little things (like making the tool aware of the often-used Cygwin >> programs and telling it to not check "outbound email messages" (!) sent by >> those programs) can help speed up Cygwin... > >It's definitely none of those as I don't run any firewall or antivirus >software whatsoever on this box. Windows 2003 Server, minimal set of >services. The machine literally sits at 0% CPU unless I'm using it. Try using binary mounts instead of text mounts. cgf -- 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/