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From: "John Vincent" <jpv50 AT hotmail DOT com>
To: rickr AT mn DOT rr DOT com, cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: A Simple Real World Benchmark for Cygwin
Date: Mon, 02 Sep 2002 16:51:18 +0000
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Hi,

I'm running a 450Mhz laptop with 256Mb RAM.
The O/S is Win 2K SP3.
Your configure script takes approx 25 seconds, when
run as a bash command in an rxvt window with default
mounts as per setup (install binary/all)

uname -a gives:
CYGWIN_NT-5.0 JOHNS-2ND-STAR 1.3.12(0.54/3/2) 2002-07-06 02:16 i686 unknown

I hope this gives you something to compare with
/John Vincent.


>From: Rick Richardson <rickr AT mn DOT rr DOT com>
>To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
>Subject: A Simple Real World Benchmark for Cygwin
>Date: Mon, 2 Sep 2002 10:19:58 -0500
>
>A Simple Real World Benchmark for CygWin
>----------------------------------------
>
>This is a simple benchmark of CygWin performance when running a
>collection of Unix tools such as sed, awk, gcc.  It uses the familiar
>"configure" script to generate the load.  I picked a configure script
>I happened to have laying around as being "representative" of this
>type of load.
>
>I am a CygWin newbie.  The motivation for this benchmark is that I
>noticed that my CygWin installations were so slow as to effectively be
>unusable for development work.  For example, the attached script runs
>in 5 seconds with native Redhat 7.2 on a P3/700 with a 7200 RPM disk.
>But the script takes 3 minutes to run on the same machine under CygWin.
>
>Certainly, some performance degradation under CygWin could be expected
>and tolerated.  But not a factor of 30X or more.  IMHO, of course.
>
>It is not entirely clear to me that my performance is representative
>of other CygWin installations.  Without a benchmark, it is impossible
>for me to determine if the results I am seeing are normal for CygWin,
>or the result of some unknown as yet system or installation problem.
>
>Hence this benchmark, which I hope will allow myself and others to
>compare CygWin performance with the performance that other people
>are seeing.
>
>Running the benchmark is simple, and I am not particularly interested
>in highly precise results in this first pass.  Simply make your system
>as quiescent as possible, then type:
>
>         rm -f config.cache
>         time ./configure
>
>Report the elapsed *real* time.
>
>Here are the results from my two tests.  I will happily accept other
>benchmark reports.  Mail them to rickr AT mn DOT rr DOT com.
>
>-Rick Richardson, 09/02/2002
>
>TIME    CPU     MHZ     DISK            OS AND VERSION
>(secs)
>------  ---     ---     --------------  ----------------------------------
>5       P3      700     IBM 7200RPM     RH7.2, native
>180     P3      700     IBM 7200RPM     win98 4.10.1998, cygwin 1.3.12-2
>
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