Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sourceware.cygnus.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com From: Chris Faylor Date: Tue, 26 Oct 1999 22:25:29 -0400 To: Earnie Boyd Cc: Mike MacDonald , cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com Subject: Re: speed Message-ID: <19991026222529.A3444@cygnus.com> Reply-To: cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com Mail-Followup-To: Earnie Boyd , Mike MacDonald , cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com References: <19991026170231.23619.rocketmail@web115.yahoomail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.6i In-Reply-To: <19991026170231.23619.rocketmail@web115.yahoomail.com>; from Earnie Boyd on Tue, Oct 26, 1999 at 10:02:31AM -0700 On Tue, Oct 26, 1999 at 10:02:31AM -0700, Earnie Boyd wrote: > > >--- Mike MacDonald wrote: >> I'm running a snapshot from a couple weeks ago, and it runs pretty slow.. >> Have the new snapshots sped up? Is there anything I can do to speed things >> up? I think that the B20.1 version was alot faster. >> > >I had downloaded the 10/22 snapshot and thought it to be much faster. I did >notice that there is a lot more activity with every mounted device. I'm not >currently in a position to explain further but maybe later today I can look at >it again. > >Based on what I noticed and am thinking, if you have a networked path it could >be slower. Try adding `mount a:\\ /a' to the list and watch what happens to >the diskette drive when you do `ls' from the root directory. If that is the case, I've probably screwed something up. I went to some pains to optimize the reading of files so that we didn't hit a disk multiple times for one file open or stat or whatever. Btw, I've moved this to the appropriate mailing list. This has nothing to do with XFree86. cgf -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com