X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2007 12:32:58 -0500 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: [experimental] cygwin-1.5.25-1 Message-ID: <20071123173258.GA2685@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com References: <20071123162550 DOT GA1632 AT ednor DOT casa DOT cgf DOT cx> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: 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 On Fri, Nov 23, 2007 at 05:04:38PM -0000, Thorsten Kampe wrote: >* Christopher Faylor (Fri, 23 Nov 2007 11:25:50 -0500) >> On Thu, Nov 22, 2007 at 06:05:49PM -0000, Thorsten Kampe wrote: >> >* Corinna Vinschen (Thu, 22 Nov 2007 16:42:10 +0100) >> >> ==== CYGWIN THANKSGIVING EDITION ==== >> >> >> >> I've made the new version of the Cygwin DLL, 1.5.25-1, and associated >> >> utilities available for testing. Version 1.5.24-2 remains the current >> >> version for now. >> >> >> >> This is a bug fix release. Important changes since 1.5.24-2: >> > >> >Unfortunately the changes that made rsync run about 2 - 6 times faster >> >[1] (on a backup of about 100,000 files residing on a FAT32 volume) >> >didn't make it into the prelease. >> > >> >The first snapshot that exhibited the stunning increase was the >> >snapshot from 2007-08-02 and the last one was the snapshot from 2007- >> >08-13. >> > >> >[1] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.os.cygwin/91350/focus=91509 >> >> So, does this mean that the snapshot was faster and then it wasn't? > >Yes, all the snapshots between 2007-08-02 and 2007-08-13 were much >faster. You remarked "does rsync use pipes by any chance? If so, that >may be at least part of the reason since that code has been revamped." Yes. I read and recall my comments. Since I didn't remove any of the pipe code, if it is now slower, then I don't understand what caused the slowdown. cgf -- 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/