On 05/25/2006, mwoehlke wrote:
Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:
> mwoehlke wrote:
>> I'm trying to run some scripts off of a slow network share, and it takes
*forever* in Cygwin (it's OK in Interix).
>>
>> Looking at an strace (attached) via 'sort -n' shows a LOT of time being
spent in read(), apparently just after (caused by?) an fstat(), which means
this feels like an inefficiency somewhere in Cygwin's POSIX emulation.
Other than "RTFSC", does anyone have any ideas what I could do
(workarounds, etc) so that I can run scripts in a reasonable amount of
time? (Might this have anything to do with my share being non-writable?)
>
> Take a look at the -x, -E, and -X flags of 'mount'. Perhaps these will
help
> you.
Hmm, those are mutually contradictory... guess I'll "experiment". Out of
curiosity, what are any of these expected to do?
They are indeed mutually exclusive. See 'man mount' for an explanation of the
flags. You might want to try -x or -X.
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