> -----Original Message----- > Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2012 07:09 > Cc: Aharon Robbins > Subject: Re: stuff running slowly > > On 8/27/2012 11:28 PM, Aharon Robbins wrote: > > Michael, > > > > Thanks for your note. I understand that process creation on Windows is > > slower than on Linux. But what I'm seeing is off by a few orders of > > magnitude. Cygwin on Windows 7 on a Sandy Bridge Core i5 with 4 Gig > > of memory is PAINFULLY slower than even my 7 year old Power PC > Macbook > > G4 running Mac OS X 10.5 with only .75 G of RAM. Something is > > definitely wrong. > > > > The total > > > > ./bootstrap.sh && configure && make && make check > > > > process takes close to 45 minutes! On Linux, it takes under one minute. > > On my Mac, under 5 minutes. > > > > Short of "remove and reinstall", is there anything I should look for? > > That's only one order of magnitude :P But I'm guessing that's small > consolation. > > There is one thing you can look for, and that's anything cluttering up your > process creation, uh, process, so to speak. > > BLODA apps (see http://cygwin.com/faq/faq.using.html#faq.using.bloda) > are the likeliest culprits and also they will give you more grief later. >
I'd also look into this. I've personally seen a case where process creation took about 0.5 seconds (!!); uninstalling the anti-virus fixed the problem. Note that this slow process-creation was not Cygwin-specific; it was actually affecting every process on the machine. -- 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
