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Re: Machine-specific performance problem
----- Original Message -----
From: "Glenn Proctor" <glenn@docproc.com>
To: <cygwin@cygwin.com>
Sent: Thursday, November 15, 2001 3:50 AM
Subject: Machine-specific performance problem
> Hi
>
> I'm using cygwin to develop a system which is about to go live. Everything
> works fine, but one of the machines - unfortunately the production one -
> seems much slower than the others I've tried it on.
>
> The problem machine runs NT, and has a 1.2Ghz processor and 1Gb of RAM. It
> runs cygwin tools (both interactively and in scripts) at around one-fifth
> to one-tenth of the speed of my development machine, which has a 600Mhz
> processor and 256Mb of RAM.
>
> There are various other differences between the machines - installed
> applications, drive partitioning etc.
>
> My problem is that I don't really know where do start diagnosing the
> problem - has anyone else seen this disparity, and if so, what was it
> caused by?
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> Glenn.
This might come about from inappropriate path order, from running certain
anti-virus command line checkers, from fragmentation or registry errors...
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