Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com From: jurgen DOT defurne AT philips DOT com To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: /etc/group, /etc/passwd usage by cygwin layer ? MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: Date: Thu, 9 Jan 2003 11:28:04 +0100 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Hello, Are the /etc/group and /etc/passwd files referenced much by cygwin while executing programs or doing file accesses ? The reason for asking is the following. I have a server process which schedules build jobs. This process awakes every five seconds, to have a good response time. However, when looking at the Task Manager performance display, I now have every five seconds a spike up to 30% cpu. This is a dual processor system, at 1.8 GHz and a SCSI subsystem. The only thing I changed yesterday, was copying a new group file, created by mkgroup -d. This file is 1669895 bytes large (yes, that is 1.59 Mb), it contains 22080 group entries. I done the test. I took the new group file, removed all lines below what I needed (about 20500), and replaced it. The result is that everything is snappier under Cygwin. Do you think this should be filed as a bug ? Jurgen -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/