X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <4582C92C.4000306@algonet.se> Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2006 17:11:24 +0100 From: Magnus Holmgren User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.7 (Windows/20060909) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Cygwin slower on one computer References: <45804D3A DOT 6060602 AT algonet DOT se> <813e5f920612141419i717e223ds38d20b03ab137a70 AT mail DOT gmail DOT com> In-Reply-To: <813e5f920612141419i717e223ds38d20b03ab137a70@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 0659-0, 2006-12-15), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Id: 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 Hugh McMaster wrote: > Have you tried enabling the large Windows memory cache option? This > should increase your Cygwin compile time immensely. The build time is > also related, as you know, to what else is taking CPU time. No, I haven't, as the test isn't (or shouldn't be) I/O bound. The first run can be a bit slower, but following runs are quicker, and appear to run entirely from the filesystem cache (and those are the ones I timed). And I've run the tests on an idle system. Magnus -- 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/