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Re: speed
- To: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd at yahoo dot com>
- Subject: Re: speed
- From: Chris Faylor <cgf at cygnus dot com>
- Date: Tue, 26 Oct 1999 22:25:29 -0400
- Cc: Mike MacDonald <mmacdona at tsi dot gte dot com>, cygwin at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
- References: <19991026170231.23619.rocketmail@web115.yahoomail.com>
- Reply-To: cygwin at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
On Tue, Oct 26, 1999 at 10:02:31AM -0700, Earnie Boyd wrote:
>
>
>--- Mike MacDonald <mmacdona@tsi.gte.com> wrote:
>> I'm running a snapshot from a couple weeks ago, and it runs pretty slow..
>> Have the new snapshots sped up? Is there anything I can do to speed things
>> up? I think that the B20.1 version was alot faster.
>>
>
>I had downloaded the 10/22 snapshot and thought it to be much faster. I did
>notice that there is a lot more activity with every mounted device. I'm not
>currently in a position to explain further but maybe later today I can look at
>it again.
>
>Based on what I noticed and am thinking, if you have a networked path it could
>be slower. Try adding `mount a:\\ /a' to the list and watch what happens to
>the diskette drive when you do `ls' from the root directory.
If that is the case, I've probably screwed something up. I went to some
pains to optimize the reading of files so that we didn't hit a disk multiple
times for one file open or stat or whatever.
Btw, I've moved this to the appropriate mailing list. This has nothing
to do with XFree86.
cgf
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