X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SPF_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Content-class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: RE: Can I speed up running "configure" script? Date: Wed, 20 May 2009 16:37:58 +0100 Message-ID: <5E25AF06EFB9EA4A87C19BC98F5C8753035AAC4D@core-email.int.ascribe.com> In-Reply-To: <23637104.post@talk.nabble.com> References: <23637104.post@talk.nabble.com> From: "Phil Betts" To: Reply-To: X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: 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 Ravenik wrote: > I type "./configure" in xterm to configure package. The script runs > very slowly - above 40 minutes. I suppose it should run faster on the=20 > E8400 2x3GHz CPU. Can I speed up / boost this ? Windows Task Manager=20 > shows "idle" process takes ~70%. Sorry if the question is stupid, I=20 > am beginner at cygwin. > Host is Vista Home Premium 32, and cygwin is 1.5.25-15. Usually, when something takes this long, is not using 100% CPU, but is nevertheless progressing, it's because of network timeouts. Is it possible that you have a reference to a non-existent network=20 share in your PATH? If not, you could try identifying where configure is spending its time=20 by adding "set -x" near the top of the script (without the quotes, and=20 after the line starting "#!".) That will slow things down even more,=20 but as the output scrolls by, you might spot it taking longer than=20 you'd expect somewhere. If you don't get anywhere, please follow the instructions here: > Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html particularly the bit about *attaching* the output from "cygcheck -svr" You might also check whether you're suffering from BLODA. See http://cygwin.com/faq/faq.using.html#faq.using.bloda and http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#BLODA Phil --=20 This email has been scanned by Ascribe Ltd using Microsoft Antigen for Exch= ange. -- 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/