Re: slow share = slow scripts?

["Larry Hall (Cygwin)" <reply-to-list-only-lh at cygwin dot com>]

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.


> Sorry for the .bz2, but 248k seemed a little excessive :-).


And actually sending unsolicited straces to the list is discouraged.


> Somewhat OT, why does 'strace bash -c foo > /foo_strace' generate a file 
> with DOS line-endings? None of my mounts are 'textmode'...

'strace' does not use cygwin1.dll.


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