RE: Why is cygwin cvs client so slow?

2005-01-04 Thread Christopher Warth
Wow! You're not kidding - cygwin cvs performance is comparable to native performance on local drives. I'm obviously going to look through the archives to see previous discussions of network drive performance. In the meantime, do you know if the problem is one that just lacked someone willing to

Why is cygwin cvs client so slow?

2005-01-04 Thread Christopher Warth
Can anyone speculate as to why cygwin cvs is so much slower than their native windows equivalents? In short, 'cvs update' using cygwin cvs takes 7-9 times as long to do the same task as a non-cygwin port of cvs from www.cvshome.org/. To update a missing directory that contains almost 3000 file