Re: Using Cygwin on NT 4.0 and Win2000; a user experience

[Ljubomir Josifovski <lbj at cre dot canon dot co dot uk>]

On Mon, May 19, 2003 at 12:32:33AM +0100, Max Bowsher wrote:
> Martin Buchholz wrote:
> > Max> Actual test data relating to this would be very interesting to see.
> >
> > Some was included in my other post.  I would have done a more
> > conclusive test, but I now have a working machine that is doing

Thanks for sharing the patch.
(I have to deal with a *lot* of small files, this patch enables
me to do things on my laptop that I haven't been able to in the
past month (I think))

> > productive work, and I hesitate to go through another two cycles of
> > painful cygwin1.dll installs.  But I would be willing to do this if
> > that's what it would take to convince you folks to undo the sparse
> > file patch.
> >
> > If you have a Windows 2000 machine (no service packs) and a recent
> > cygwin, try this experiment:

$ CYGWIN=sparse perl -e 'system("df ."); for (1 ... 1024) { system("cp /etc/passwd foobar$_"); } system("df .")'; rm foobar*
Filesystem           1k-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
C:\cygwin             15888252  11653848   4234404  74% /
Filesystem           1k-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
C:\cygwin             15888252  11654220   4234032  74% /
$ CYGWIN=nosparse perl -e 'system("df ."); for (1 ... 1024) { system("cp /etc/passwd foobar$_"); } system("df .")'; rm foobar*
Filesystem           1k-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
C:\cygwin             15888252  11654272   4233980  74% /
Filesystem           1k-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
C:\cygwin             15888252  11654280   4233972  74% /
$ bc -l
11654220-11653848
372
11654280-11654272
8
$

(don't know about "no service packs", though - I can see
about 15 entreis reading "Windows 2000 Hotfix (Pre-SP4)
XXXXXXXXXXXXX" and "Windows 2000 Hotfix (SP4)" in
Control panel/Software).

-- 
Ljubomir Josifovski
mailto:lbj@cre.canon.co.uk

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