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 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.0.6375.0 content-class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Subject: RE: cygwin too slow Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2003 12:11:26 -0000 Message-ID: X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: From: To: , , X-OriginalArrivalTime: 12 Nov 2003 12:11:27.0004 (UTC) FILETIME=[18FBDDC0:01C3A916] Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id hACCC84q028003 Hi Koundinya, At that sort of spec, there's no way you are running out of system resources. This infers that it is most likely a storage problem: either hard drive (see 'activity' light) or network (enable network icon in taskbar and watch it). Probably a good idea to check that the paging file has been set up sensibly, but that shouldn't make much difference with the figures you've given. If asked, I'd suggest about a 1 Gb static paging file about right for that spec of system - but it doesn't look like swapping/paging is your problem here. Kevin. -----Original Message----- From: koorapati, koundinya [mailto:koorapati_koundinya AT emc DOT com] Sent: 12 November 2003 12:03 To: Lawton,K,Kevin,XJH3C C; ford AT vss DOT fsi DOT com; cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: RE: cygwin too slow Hi Kevin, From what I see in ths system information: this is a MS Win 2000 machine registered to my company. It has Intel Pentium IV CPU of 2.6 GHz and has 522,228 KB RAM. I'm running so few applications at the moment that there is close to 300 MB still free Memory left. I'm looking into your other points, but in the meantime thought just provide this info too. Koundinya -----Original Message----- From: kevin DOT lawton AT bt DOT com [mailto:kevin DOT lawton AT bt DOT com] Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2003 5:22 PM To: koorapati_koundinya AT emc DOT com; ford AT vss DOT fsi DOT com; cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: RE: cygwin too slow Hi, I run Cygwin under Win2K and find it lightening fast most of the time. Maybe the slowness you're experiencing is not down to cygwin itself, but the machine generally and Win2K's use of resources specifically. General advice for running under Win2K might help here - at least worth a try first - as would some idea of how other things run on this box. It might be of some help to know what spec of box you are running Win2K on. Something like a 350 MHz Duron or Celeron with only 128 Mb memory will be easily overloaded. A 1 GHz or above Pentium or Athlon with 512 Mb memory should handle most tasks in its stride. I would suggest: * Try and remove as much of the surplus Windoze paraphernalia as you dare: wallpaper, screen savers, extra fonts - they all use a static amount of resource and contribute very little other than eye candy (a Windoze speciality). * Have a look at what services are running on your machine, and stop / disable things which aren't needed. There's heaps of info out there on the web as to what each service does. * If you have Micro$oft Office on the machine as well, disable things like 'findfast' and any other indexing service unless you really cannot live without them. * Try making some use of Win2K's performance monitor, or see what you can download off the web, to investigate any bottlenecks on the machine. Remember these too use some resource and will probably worsen the problem. * It would be useful to know what other signs the machine shows. For example: is there much hard drive activity during the delays ? Hope the above is of some use to you, with some more info we might be able to tackle the problem more specifically. Kevin. -----Original Message----- From: koorapati, koundinya [mailto:koorapati_koundinya AT emc DOT com] Sent: 12 November 2003 11:30 To: Brian Ford Cc: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: RE: cygwin too slow I restricted my path to just /usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin , but still there's been no change in slowness that I see with every command. Here we are given a customized Windows O.S for the company I work, by Dell (Windows 2000 Pro). This is really mysterious. In strace I'm not able to see which system call is eating up so much time as when I start a program say 'ls' with strace, I see nothing and only as ls begins to run after getting loaded, strace throws it's output. I guess strace is also taking it's own time to run ?. I'm also not sure what tools on windows could be used for troubleshooting as this is my first close encounter with MS Windows :) Koundinya -----Original Message----- From: Brian Ford [mailto:ford AT vss DOT fsi DOT com] Sent: Tuesday, November 11, 2003 10:37 PM To: koorapati, koundinya Cc: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: cygwin too slow On Tue, 11 Nov 2003, koorapati, koundinya wrote: > But simple commands like ls take this time > > $ time ls -l > total 23 > drwxr-xr-x 1 kkoorapa mkgroup- 0 Nov 11 17:50 Mail > -rw-r--r-- 1 kkoorapa mkgroup- 39 Nov 10 17:42 t.c > -rwxr-xr-x 1 kkoorapa mkgroup- 11224 Nov 10 17:40 t.exe > -rwxr-xr-x 1 kkoorapa mkgroup- 11224 Nov 10 17:43 tt.exe > > real 0m18.115s > user 0m0.020s > sys 0m0.010s > WAG, got any network drives in your path, especially ones that are not accessable? Where does strace show a long time between system calls? 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