From:	earnie_boyd AT hotmail DOT com (Earnie Boyd)
Subject:	Re: Cygwin Performance - especially on a network
29 Mar 1998 04:13:20 -0800 :
Message-ID:	<19980325122631.6476.qmail.cygnus.gnu-win32@hotmail.com>
To:	kh AT wg DOT icl DOT co DOT uk
Cc:	gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com

>From: Kevin Hughes <kh AT wg DOT icl DOT co DOT uk>
>Reply-To: "kh AT wg DOT icl DOT co DOT uk" <kh AT wg DOT icl DOT co DOT uk>
>To: "'Gnuwin95 (E-mail)'" <gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com>
>Subject: Cygwin Performance - especially on a network
>Date: Fri, 20 Mar 1998 10:30:34 -0000
>
>
>I  have been very interested in the performance of the cygin toolset 
>specifically the apparent slowness of the system primarily on network 
>connected disks. This topic (performance) has ocupied a great deal of 
the 
>list bandwidth from time to time.
>
>I have now managed to get some measures for a  program compiled under 
>cygwin and msvc++ accessing local and remote drives. The program is 
>trivial, it hangs around to let loading complete and then opens a file 
>identified as a parameter, fstats it and then closes it. More than 1 
file 
>can be specified on the input.
>The program reports the time taken to complete the actions - using the 
>rdtsc counter.
>
>This is the results I get running from NT command shell, running the 
>program twice to the same files


What version of NT and what filesystem?  cygwin32 responds differently 
for FAT vs NTFS.  On FAT there is an "EA DATA. SF" file that gets 
written to. 8-( 


Have you tried your program using Mingw32 available from Colin Peters 
page?  or EGCS available from Mumit Khan's page?

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