From: weiku AT utkux DOT utcc DOT utk DOT edu (Wei Ku) Subject: Re: performance of cygwin32 13 Jan 1998 18:26:18 -0800 Message-ID: <002801bd1f91$e174d050$0f12a980.cygnus.gnu-win32@wku1.utk.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: I do notice a boost in performance when I upgrade the main memory from 32 MB to 32 + 64 = 96 MB. Maybe this can explain the different result between your machines. Sincerely, Wei Ku -----Original Message----- From: Ed Peschko To: Geoffrey Noer Cc: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com Date: Monday, January 12, 1998 7:35 AM Subject: Re: performance of cygwin32 >> >> Ed Peschko wrote: >> > >> > Win32 is slow, but network drives are *glacial*, at least with cygwin32 >> > tools. I've installed the coolview update (when will it be incorporated >> > into the 'vanilla' cygwin32 tools anyways?) and it is going a bit faster. >> >> The "coolview" sources represent a state of the actual Cygnus development >> tree as of whenever that was made. It's made more progress since then; >> right now I'm battling race conditions in the signal code... >> >> Right now I can do a complete configure of the compiler tools (including >> tcl/tk) in about 20 minutes and build them in an hour 15 min. which is a >> huge improvement performance-wise. But signal handling isn't quite as >> robust as it needs to be... > >Well, something must be seriously wrong with my configuration, because I was >seeing performance times of about 6-7 hours to do the same. > >1 hour 15 mins is what I call slightly slow. 6-7 hours is what I call glacial. >I'd hit 'ls' and it would take about a minute to respond.... > >I could live with an hour to build all the tools, believe me. Its just the >going to dinner, then taking a nap, then playing two games of pool, and finally >coming back to the keyboard to see that the tools are *still* compiling >which is getting annoying. > >Ed >- >For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to >"gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help". > - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help".