Re: pipe improvements in snapshot

2002-12-13 Thread Pavel Holejsovsky
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Christopher Faylor wrote: On Thu, Dec 12, 2002 at 07:32:16AM -0500, Norman Vine wrote: Any 'tips' as to how to best debug this appreciated - Attach to the hung process with gdb and see where it is hung. - Provide cygcheck output. - Run under strace and see if you can

Re: pipe improvements in snapshot

2002-12-12 Thread Norman Vine
Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Thu, Dec 12, 2002 at 07:32:16AM -0500, Norman Vine wrote: > > > >With a Cygwin CVS tree I built this AM < (2) below > > >rxvt has problems when configuring a project from a build directory > > > >ie > >$TOP_DIR > > src > > build > > > >cd $TOP_DIR/build > >

Re: pipe improvements in snapshot

2002-12-12 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Dec 12, 2002 at 07:32:16AM -0500, Norman Vine wrote: >Christopher Faylor writes: > >> In the most recent cygwin snapshot (uploading now) I've attempted to >> work around the 10ms delay in pipe reads. > >< snip > > >> Please check out the latest snapshot and report here if there are >> prob

Re: pipe improvements in snapshot

2002-12-12 Thread Pavel Holejsovsky
I have similar experience. Examining the processes when the ./configure hangs reveals that hanging leaf seems to be always 'sed', running as a part of config.status script creating Makefiles etc. I'm running XPPro, the same results were achieved when running configure inside xterm or inside FSF

Re: pipe improvements in snapshot

2002-12-12 Thread Norman Vine
Christopher Faylor writes: > In the most recent cygwin snapshot (uploading now) I've attempted to > work around the 10ms delay in pipe reads. < snip > > Please check out the latest snapshot and report here if there are > problems. I haven't yet tried this on Windows 9x class systems so it's >

RE: pipe improvements in snapshot

2002-12-11 Thread Elfyn McBratney
Sorry I forgot to metion I'm using windows 2000 pro/adv. server and windows xp home/pro. Elfyn [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Elfyn McBratney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I've also been using kde (Kmail), gzip with piped input, cat, less and also a few >other tailor made apps with no problems. If anything

RE: pipe improvements in snapshot

2002-12-11 Thread Elfyn McBratney
I've also been using kde (Kmail), gzip with piped input, cat, less and also a few other tailor made apps with no problems. If anything it's a bit faster ;) Elfyn [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- "Ralf Habacker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Please check out the latest snapshot and report here if there are

RE: pipe improvements in snapshot

2002-12-11 Thread Ralf Habacker
> Please check out the latest snapshot and report here if there are > problems. I haven't yet tried this on Windows 9x class systems so it's > entirely possible that there is a problem there. > I've used this snapshot for running kde (Kmail,konqueror and other) a while on windows 2000 and haven't

RE: pipe improvements in snapshot

2002-12-11 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
> W98/SE. With the current cygwin1.dll I tried > time cat | nice -0 dd of=/dev/null > time cat | nice --1 dd of=/dev/null > where hugefile ~ 100MB, and got times roughly 1m20s with the 2nd instruction > marginally faster. Then switched to the snapshot cygwin1-20021210.dll and > shaved a m

Re: pipe improvements in snapshot

2002-12-11 Thread fergus
W98/SE. With the current cygwin1.dll I tried time cat | nice -0 dd of=/dev/null time cat | nice --1 dd of=/dev/null where hugefile ~ 100MB, and got times roughly 1m20s with the 2nd instruction marginally faster. Then switched to the snapshot cygwin1-20021210.dll and shaved a minute yes a

Re: pipe improvements in snapshot

2002-12-11 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Dec 11, 2002 at 02:26:39PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: >On Wed, Dec 11, 2002 at 03:08:45PM +0100, thomas wrote: >>Christopher Faylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> Please check out the latest snapshot and report here if there are >>> problems. I haven't yet tried this on Windows 9x

Re: pipe improvements in snapshot

2002-12-11 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Dec 11, 2002 at 03:08:45PM +0100, thomas wrote: >Christopher Faylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Please check out the latest snapshot and report here if there are >> problems. I haven't yet tried this on Windows 9x class systems so it's >> entirely possible that there is a problem there

Re: pipe improvements in snapshot

2002-12-11 Thread thomas
Christopher Faylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Please check out the latest snapshot and report here if there are > problems. I haven't yet tried this on Windows 9x class systems so it's > entirely possible that there is a problem there. It seems to work great! I did a few tests and there was no

pipe improvements in snapshot

2002-12-10 Thread Christopher Faylor
In the most recent cygwin snapshot (uploading now) I've attempted to work around the 10ms delay in pipe reads. I've managed this by resurrecting an idea I had back in 1998, updated for the new millenium. My idea was shot down by other (then) Cygnus employees but since they are now gone and I'm in