Speed of Cygwin's cp vs. Windows Explorer

Dave Korn dave.korn@artimi.com
Tue May 15 11:00:00 GMT 2007


On 15 May 2007 08:03, Morgan Gangwere wrote:


> it would appear that until we increase the i/o buffer (am i using the
> right term?) to do the cp, we run slower than the windows cp
> 
> is there a #DEFINE or some thing that we could add a diff for that
> adventurous people could use?

  If you build from mainline source, (i.e. the upcoming 1.7 cygwin) you'll already get:

2007-01-04  Brian Ford  <>
	    Corinna Vinschen  <>

	* fhandler.h (PREFERRED_IO_BLKSIZE): Define as 64K.
	* fhandler.cc (fhandler_base::fstat): Set st_blksize to
	PREFERRED_IO_BLKSIZE.
	* fhandler_disk_file.cc (fhandler_base::fstat_helper): Ditto.
	* fhandler_mailslot.cc (fhandler_mailslot::fstat): Ditto.
	* fhandler_raw.cc (fhandler_dev_raw::fstat): Ditto.

  If you want to stick to 1.5 series, you could download a snapshot (source) and merge the diffs in yourself easily enough.


    cheers,
      DaveK
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