To clarify a few things... On Tue, 16 Jan 2007, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:
> Brian Ford wrote: > > A quick look via Filemon doesn't show where the time is going. But since > > I don't regularly run this way, I'm not that interested in pursuing this > > further. This statement was with respect to "Virus Scan Enterprise 8.0.0 On Access Scan Disabled" before Corinna's patch. I did not test after her patch because, as I said, I wasn't that interested in this (the OPs original) case. > > I regularly delete 100,000 files at a time under 1.5.18, and the rm return > > is rather snappy. About two weeks ago I was cleaning space of my drive > > under a then current CVS build with On Access Scan enabled (before my 64k > > I/O change, although I don't think that's relevant), and deleting a few > > thousand files was very slow comparatively. So, I presumed I had seen the > > problem. > > > > Since I can't duplicate this observation now, I'm sorry for the wasted > > effort. > > Did you update your build recently? This observation was before her patch, and my attempt to reproduce it was also pre-patch. So, no. > Corinna checked in a fix for this on Saturday > <http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-cvs/2007-q1/msg00021.html>. My point was that her statements about her patch bringing only a marginal performance increase, and the original code not being horribly inefficient, appear correct despite my previous qualitative observation. -- Brian Ford Lead Realtime Software Engineer VITAL - Visual Simulation Systems FlightSafety International the best safety device in any aircraft is a well-trained crew... -- 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/
