Cygwin allocted time slice

[Albrecht Schlosser]

Aaron Gray wrote:
 > Cygwin seems to only use a small amount of time slice relative to the 
ammount of time slice availiable. Compiles, builds and testsuite are 
relly slow compared to MinGW which takes too much time.
 >
 > 'time' results confirm this. Process time is about 1/4 of the total 
system time.

Are you using a dual (or more) processor system?

 > It i very noticable on compiling and testing GCC as compared to the 
same on Linux or MinGW.

I assume: on (a) different machine(s) ?

 > Is there any way to give Cygwin a bigger slice of the pie ?
 >
 > Say 50% or 75% ?

Well, what I saw on a dual core machine was that make seems to use only 
one processor, and therefore I got similar CPU usage (< 50%).

Try make -j2 or make -j3 and see if you get better results. This worked 
for me.

Albrecht

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