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Re: mkdir is too slow
On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 11:19 PM, Larry Hall
(Cygwin)<reply-to-list-only-lh@cygwin.com> wrote:
> Äsmail DÃnmez wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I got a weird problem with Cygwin. I am using Cygwin 1.7 on Windows 7
>> RC (x64) and noticed that configure scripts are real slow and tried
>> some simple tests and to my surprise
>>
>> mkdir /foo
>>
>> takes up to 18 seconds! But interestingly time(1) is lying to me :
>>
>> [~]> time mkdir /foo
>> mkdir /foo Â0.00s user 0.01s system 20% cpu 0.074 total
>>
>> while waiting for this to finish I was able to count to 20.
>>
>> Any idea why would be the reason for such slowdown?
>
> Not based on information so far. ÂUnless the problem is platform or
> architecture dependent, which would surprise me, it's likely a problem
> local to your machine. ÂI cannot reproduce it on WinXP x86.
This only happens when zsh is used, that might be a clue.
Regards.
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Äsmail DÃNMEZ
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