On Jan 31 13:46, Jim Kresse wrote: > > Is anybody here who's using /etc/passwd and/or group files > > of more than 16K in size? > > > > If so, please reply to this thread with the size of your files. > > /etc/passwd: 2.6 MB > /etc/group: 460 kB
Oh boy. Considering what I wrote in my mail: > As a sidenote, if you think Cygwin is slow, one factor *might* be > the size of your passwd and group files. Right now, these files > have to be loaded anew in each exec'ed process. > This is supposed to go away with my patch, but big passwd and > group files would still have an impact when starting the first > Cygwin process (mintty, for instance). would you be willing to reduce the size of the files to the entries you really need and see how much of a performance impact this has when running, say, a make or so? Thanks, Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Maintainer cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat
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