This is an old problem, the last I heard on it was something along the lines of: "Cygwin's functionality/compatibility/robustness improved in necessary ways, but performance was required to suffer" >From a hearsay perspective, it appears to be related to fork/exec performance, and more specifically probably related to proper memory allocation/management.
http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2008-05/msg00387.html I'd say "Try using Colinux", but they haven't gotten their 64 bit act together yet. (barely decided they're going to try) One other time I was frustrated and got 50% improvement using a smaller shell, (sh) but really that's a drop in the bucket, performance-wise. -greenup On Sat, Apr 24, 2010 at 7:41 PM, StephenBartlett <stephen.bartlett...@gmail.com> wrote: Same problem here. Has anyone figured out what it is yet ? Vincent Richomme-2 wrote: > On Sat, 23 Jan 2010 11:19:36 -0600, David Morgan <dmor...@aechelon.com> >>... >> We use cygwin ... >> everything runs extremely slow ... > My QuadCore 3.GHz with 4GB feels like an old 386 when running cygwin on > Windows 7 64 bits! -- 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
