Re: Is cygwin much slower on Core 2 Duo

2007-06-04 Thread Greg Chicares
On 2007-06-04 10:08Z, Nenad Antic (KI/EAB) wrote: [...] > Kerio > used to be an excellent firewall. It is is even somewhat recommended in > the Cygwin FAQ. I don't do much with cygwin except compile C++ in a shell, so YMMV--but I've used KPF for years, and it never caused me any problem until last

Re: Is cygwin much slower on Core 2 Duo

2007-06-04 Thread Reid Thompson
On Mon, 2007-06-04 at 12:08 +0200, Nenad Antic (KI/EAB) wrote: > Anyway, today I removed the Sunbelt Personal Firewall (as it's called > now), and tried reinstalling PHP 5.2.2. (This might seem a bit odd, but > it can serve as a benchmark here. The installation creates subshells at > least four

Re: Is cygwin much slower on Core 2 Duo

2007-06-04 Thread Nenad Antic (KI/EAB)
Forgot to add: I had also experienced frequent crashes lately. I couldn't even run configure for Apache 1.3.34 without my computer going belly up. Well, now without Sunbelt Personal Firewall messing with things I tried it again and it worked just fine. As Larry Hall pointed out, it has to be a

Re: Is cygwin much slower on Core 2 Duo

2007-06-04 Thread Nenad Antic (KI/EAB)
[snip] nope. here's the thread from a while ago: http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/2007-05/msg00256.html [snip] Thanks for the replies. I somehow managed to miss this big thread from a few weeks back (maybe because the spelling was DualCore(s), as one word, throughout). Anyway, after read

Re: Is cygwin much slower on Core 2 Duo

2007-06-02 Thread Tim Prince
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tim Prince wrote: 0.fractalus gmail.com wrote: this eliminates alot of problems. the reason i ask is its hard to get a computer now without vista. Apparently, a BIOS upgrade is recommended for Vista Home Premium on Core

Re: Is cygwin much slower on Core 2 Duo

2007-06-02 Thread morgan gangwere
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tim Prince wrote: > 0.fractalus gmail.com wrote: >> >> this eliminates alot of problems. the reason i ask is its hard to get a >> computer now without vista. >> > Apparently, a BIOS upgrade is recommended for Vista Home Premium on Core > 2 Duo, and mo

Re: Is cygwin much slower on Core 2 Duo

2007-06-02 Thread Tim Prince
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: this eliminates alot of problems. the reason i ask is its hard to get a computer now without vista. Apparently, a BIOS upgrade is recommended for Vista Home Premium on Core 2 Duo, and more may be on the way. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe

Re: Is cygwin much slower on Core 2 Duo

2007-06-02 Thread morgan gangwere
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 nenad wrote: > Hmm... I don't quite know what to say. Some people are just inherently > abusive. > > morgan gangwere <0.fractalus gmail.com> writes: >> >> Nenad Antic (KI/EAB) wrote: >>> I see some posts about cygwin being a bit slow on core duo pro

Re: Is cygwin much slower on Core 2 Duo

2007-06-01 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
nenad wrote: > > I have tried to find information about this problem but have ended up short. I > have seen a lot of complaints lately on the mailing list about cygwin being > slow, more than I can remember ever before. Maybe this is all related. > > I have used cygwin pretty much daily since

Re: Is cygwin much slower on Core 2 Duo

2007-06-01 Thread Steven Hartland
- Original Message - From: "nenad" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Hey nenad fire up msconfig and limit the CPU's to 1 in your new rig and see if that makes any difference. If it does then there is something about dual which is causing it if not you've eliminated it as the cause and can start lookin

Re: Is cygwin much slower on Core 2 Duo

2007-06-01 Thread nenad
Hmm... I don't quite know what to say. Some people are just inherently abusive. morgan gangwere <0.fractalus gmail.com> writes: > > > Nenad Antic (KI/EAB) wrote: > > I see some posts about cygwin being a bit slow on core duo processors. > > But for me things really are ridiculous. > > lots of

Re: Is cygwin much slower on Core 2 Duo

2007-06-01 Thread morgan gangwere
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Nenad Antic (KI/EAB) wrote: > I see some posts about cygwin being a bit slow on core duo processors. > But for me things really are ridiculous. lots of things are rediculous. like not reading the archives. > I recently switched from an HP Compaq lapt

Is cygwin much slower on Core 2 Duo

2007-06-01 Thread Nenad Antic (KI/EAB)
I see some posts about cygwin being a bit slow on core duo processors. But for me things really are ridiculous. I recently switched from an HP Compaq laptop (nc6000) with Pentium M 1.6 GHz (Dothan) to another HP Compaq laptop (nx9420) with Core 2 Duo 1.8 GHz (Merom) and I have noticed a signif