At 09:29 PM 1/4/2005, you wrote: >Can anyone speculate as to why cygwin cvs is so much slower than their >native windows equivalents? > >In short, 'cvs update' using cygwin cvs takes 7-9 times as long to do >the same task as a non-cygwin port of cvs from www.cvshome.org/. > >To update a missing directory that contains almost 3000 files, cygwin >cvs takes more than 21 minutes. The 'native' cvs from cvshome.com takes >just under 3 minutes to do the same thing on the same file system, from >the same server. Details are below. > >Am I missing some environment variable, like export CVS_GO_FAST="yes"? >I hope 700% degradation in performance is too steep a price to pay for >unix-like tools.
Speculation isn't worth much. But I'd suggest trying the same thing on a local drive. Network drives are s-l-o-w with Cygwin. -- 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/
