My company is trying to setup a development environment using Cygwin on a server running Citrix. This allows multiple users to log into the Citrix server and it looks to them like they have their own machine. However, in the course of testing the installation of our development packages (including Cygwin) we noticed that the build was taking many times longer than on a local machine. After producing some basic benchmarks to determine how far off performance was, I attempted a series of low level tests to try an narrow down the bottleneck. One of the tests was a simple while loop which counted to 100. This test took approximatly 30 seconds in Cygwin under Citrix and only 4 seconds in Cygwin on a local machine. In addition, I created a DOS batch file that used a goto loop to count to 100. This took only 3 seconds in the DOS shell under Citrix and about the same amount of time on my local machine.
I have not been able to find any information regarding this either on the web or on the Cygwin site. If anyone could provide any insight as to why Cygwin seems to be so slow under Citrx I would greatly appreciate it. Dave -- 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/
