X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Fri, 1 Sep 2006 12:55:13 -0400 (EDT) From: Igor Peshansky Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: cygwin fork() In-Reply-To: <20060901155403.GE5926@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> Message-ID: References: <20060901100138.GA7444@ns1.anodized.com> <20060901153709.GC7663@ns1.anodized.com> <20060901155403.GE5926@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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, 1 Sep 2006, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Fri, Sep 01, 2006 at 08:37:09AM -0700, clayne@XXXXXXXX.XXX 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. This thread already had two suggestions for possibly speeding up Cygwin... Does anyone, as a service to the community, want to start a "Cygwin performance tuning" web page and keep track? It might even end up in the User's Guide eventually... Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu | igor@watson.ibm.com ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ Igor Peshansky, Ph.D. (name changed!) |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' old name: Igor Pechtchanski '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "Las! je suis sot... -Mais non, tu ne l'es pas, puisque tu t'en rends compte." "But no -- you are no fool; you call yourself a fool, there's proof enough in that!" -- Rostand, "Cyrano de Bergerac" -- 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/