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Re: Cygwin fstat and NT caching
- To: Dan Morris <dmorris at tiqit dot com>
- Subject: Re: Cygwin fstat and NT caching
- From: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd at yahoo dot com>
- Date: Wed, 03 Jan 2001 09:27:31 -0500
- CC: cygwin at sources dot redhat dot com
- References: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0101030036510.14474-100000@fable6.Stanford.EDU>
- Reply-To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
Dan Morris wrote:
> My supervisor pointed out to me yesterday that "du" takes a long time to run
> under Cygwin; out of curiosity, I've been looking into the source of the
> delays, and I'm curious if anyone else has any insights...
>
> This is me running 'du' on my entire hard drive under cygwin :
>
> dmorris@SOAPY /edrive
> $ time du
>
> ... blah blah blah ... all my files go by ... disk spins like mad ...
>
> ... I get some coffee ...
>
> 0 ./cygwin/edrive
> 1 ./cygwin/.ssh
> 208758 ./cygwin
> 7336071 .
>
> real 5m35.523s
> user 0m10.064s
> sys 0m32.877s
>
>
Command being timed: "du c:/cygwin"
User time (seconds): 1.10
System time (seconds): 4.65
Percent of CPU this job got: 11%
Elapsed (wall clock) time (h:mm:ss or m:ss): 0:50.05
NT4sp4 - Pentium III HP-Vectra 256M Ram.
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