On Mon, 23 Sep 2002, Graham Harrison wrote: > Hi, > > I support about 15 developers who use cgywin and PRC-Tools to develop > for PalmOS. > While migrating from cygnus version B20 to the latest version of cygwin > (and then PRC-Tools) we have seen a drastic performance drop. > > Some may think that I'm over stating the problem, but a file which used > to compile in under a second now take 6 seconds. Multiply this up by > the number of files in a project, and then by the number of developers I > support and you can see my point. These guys are going to kill me if I > can't get it sorted!! > > The problem seems to be with Norton Anti-Virus. We mainly use Corp. > edition, but I've tried an OEM version of 2002 and that does the same. > > Given that it is Corp. edition this gives me an issue or 2 over the > norm: 1) the developers can't turn it off themselves so I'd have to do > it and turn it on afterwards. (This is not happening!) 2) There isn't > that much which can be tweaked. > > >From my reading on the web, I believe the problem is to do with memory > mapped files. Can anyone suggest the best things to tweak to stop > Norton and Cygwin from clashing with each other? > > Thanks.
This may be relevant: http://cygwin.com/faq/faq.html#TOC61 Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "Water molecules expand as they grow warmer" (C) Popular Science, Oct'02, p.51 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
