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Re: Snapshot speed on managing files


On Sat, 13 Jan 2007, Corinna Vinschen wrote:

> On Jan 13 14:08, Igor Peshansky wrote:
> > On Sat, 13 Jan 2007, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>
> [... needless full quote deleted ...]
>
> > > Can anybody explain to me why moving to the bin should take that
> > > long on another machine?  Apparently the performance hit is barely
> > > visible on my machine.  It's hardly worth to change the code.
> > >
> > > Maybe I'm just "suffering" from caching effects?  I added a really long
> > > `find' run between creating and deleting the files, but that made the
> > > results in both variations even better!  1.4s vs. 1.2s.
> > >
> > > So, what's up on the slow machines?  Virus checker?  But why should an
> > > open/close sequence not be hit by a virus checker, while an open/move/
> > > close sequence gets hit that badly?  I don't quite get it.
> >
> > Does <http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2007-01/msg00383.html> seem like a
> > plausible answer?  I'm just reiterating it because it may have been lost
> > among other suggestions in this thread.
>
> What about http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2007-01/msg00384.html?

D'oh.  Sorry for the noise.
	Igor
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