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> Content-Type: text/plain To: kh AT wg DOT icl DOT co DOT uk Cc: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com >From: Kevin Hughes >Reply-To: "kh AT wg DOT icl DOT co DOT uk" >To: "'Gnuwin95 (E-mail)'" >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? - \\||// ---o0O0--Earnie--0O0o---- -earnie_boyd AT hotmail DOT com- ------ooo0O--O0ooo------- Check out these great gnu-win32 related sites: ftp://ftp.cygnus.com/pub/gnu-win32/latest/ (ftp site) http://www.cygnus.com/pubs/gnupro/ (Comercial Page) http://www.cygnus.com/misc/gnu-win32/ (Project Page) http://www.cygnus.com/ml/gnu-win32 (Mail Archives) http://www.itribe.net/virtunix/winhelp-man-pages/ (HTML Man Pages) http://www.lexa.ru/sos (Sergey Okhapkin) ftp://www.lexa.ru/pub/domestic/sos/ (Sergey's ftp site) http://www.fu.is.saga-u.ac.jp/~colin/gcc.html (Colin Peters) http://www.xraylith.wisc.edu/~khan/software/gnu-win32/ (Mumit Khan) http://gnu-win32.paranoia.ru (Chuck Bogorad's ports) http://www.bestweb.net/~aka/gnu-win32/ (GNU-Win32 Bash Configuration) http://rcw.home.ml.org/ (Rob Warner - software ports) http://www.wenet.net/~garbanzo/gnuwin32/ (more - software portals) http://www.wenet.net/~garbanzo/gnuwin32/rpm (Redhat Package Manager) http://www.parallax.co.uk/~andyp/index_text.html (Andy Piper - ports) http://www.tiac.net/users/cgf (Christopher Faylor - package ports) ftp://ftp.franken.de/pub/win32/develop/gnuwin32/ (German mirror) SEARCH ENGINES WITH gnu-win32 mail archive RELATED INDICIES: http://www.progressive-comp.com/Lists/?l=gnu-win32&r=1&w=2#gnu-win32 http://www.findmail.com http://www.search.com add gnu-win32 or gnuwin32 to the search criteria. Help for Win32 Beginners: http://www.relisoft.com ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help".