On Fri, 8 Aug 2003, Ronald W. Heiby wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > The thing that has me puzzled is my business partner's Toshiba > notebook computer, a Satellite Pro 6100. He has Win XP on it, and then > added RH 9 in a dual-boot setup. Under XP, he had installed the Cygwin > environment. > > He has a fairly large text file that he needs to sort. Using the > "sort" program under Cygwin on WinXP, he reports that the sort > completes in about half the time that the same sort on the same input > data runs under RH 9. He also reports similar time differences for > other compute and disk I/O processes.
This has been covered several times on the list: https://www.redhat.com/archives/redhat-list/2003-June/msg02860.html Basically, your slowdown has been caused by issues related to RedHat's adoption of Unicode. The fixes are in the link. Ben -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
