Thanks for your help. I will download and try out the debug version soon.
Mark. > -----Original Message----- > From: Larry Hall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, 30 January 2004 12:02 PM > To: Rutten, Mark; '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' > Subject: Re: setup change this year? > > > At 06:38 PM 1/29/2004, Rutten, Mark you wrote: > > >Is there something different about the way that "setup" runs > since Christmas? > > > >I have a local mirror of the cygwin packages (neatened up > using Michael Chase's clean_setup perl script) which I access > across the local network. I always call setup with the "-5" > option (no md5 checks). > > > >All was working fine last year, now setup bogs down my > machine (excessive processor usage by the "system" process) > after parsing the setup.ini file. My first impression is > that setup is doing the md5 checks without telling me that it > is, but I can't be sure. My main confusion stems from the > fact that there hasn't been any changes in the setup program > since last October(ish) - I'm using version 2.416. > > > >If anyone could please give me some hints, that would be fantastic. > > > Sounds like a local network problem if you're actually just > using a local > mirror and not just using it in addition to other mirrors on > the Internet. > That's just a WAG though. Perhaps you want to visit: > > <http://cygwin.com/setup-snapshots/> > > You can pull down 2.418 (really just adds resizable controls) > and see if > it acts differently. You can also pull down the debug > version of 2.415. > If it acts similarly, it would give you a quick basis to debug from, > without having to rebuild 2.416. But if you're really serious about > finding your problem, building 2.416 as debug locally is probably your > best course of action. > > > > -- > Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com > RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office > 838 Washington Street (508) 893-9889 - FAX > Holliston, MA 01746 > -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
