On Thu, Nov 05, 2009 at 03:27:07PM -0800, aputerguy wrote: > >Running grep on a 20MB file with ~100,000 matches takes an incredible almost >8 minutes under Cygwin 1.7 while taking just 0.2 seconds under Cygwin 1.5 >(on a 2nd machine). > >The following cases show how grep under 1.7 grinds to a halt as the number >of matches increases. > >The data 'testfile' is a plain text file of the acl's of all the 108,000 >files on my Windoze computer. > >Note since the machines are different, compare relative times across cases >rather than the times between the two machines.
We'll need an actual test case if you want us to track it down. cgf -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
