Slow/sluggish response [Solved, sort of]

Dave Korn dave.korn.cygwin@googlemail.com
Wed Jun 24 05:52:00 GMT 2009


Gene Smith wrote:
> Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:
>> Gene Smith wrote:
>>
>> <snip>
>>
>>> Since I don't have a "HOME" env var in windows, cygwin is getting the
>>> cygwin HOME from /etc/passwd. So I tried it both ways. With 1.5 I set
>>> home to be the empty directory /home/smited (under c:/cygwin). It
>>> didn't make it any faster. With beta-1.7 I set home to
>>> /cygdrive/c/Documents and Settings/smited (where all the cruft is)
>>> and it didn't make it any slower. So where cygwin points $HOME at
>>> terminal startup does not seem to have an effect for me. Current
>>> version 1.5 is slow while beta-1.7 is fast, for still unknown reasons.
>>
>> I guess you're stuck looking at strace output to see if that helps
>> pinpoint the problem...
>>
> 
> I ran the make under "strace -o outfile make" but I couldn't really tell
> what I was looking at in the outfile.

  The main thing to look at is the absolute and relative timestamps in the
first two columns, and see if any of the delays look inordinately long, that
would indicate a specific syscall ran into a big delay.

    cheers,
      DaveK




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