Re: stuff running slowly

2012-08-31 Thread Achim Gratz
Aharon Robbins writes: > I've come to the conclusion that it is indeed BLODA. The box in > question is my Corporate IT Laptop With All The Mandated Software and > I can't disable anti-virus or any of the other stuff (like the automatic > screensaver) lest the sky fall and cats start mating with dog

Re: stuff running slowly

2012-08-31 Thread Earnie Boyd
On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 7:14 AM, Aharon Robbins wrote: > Hi. Just a note to say "THANK YOU" to everyone who took the time to > reply to me. I hope that a blanket thanks will do. :-) > > I've come to the conclusion that it is indeed BLODA. The box in > question is my Corporate IT Laptop With All Th

Re: stuff running slowly

2012-08-31 Thread Aharon Robbins
Hi. Just a note to say "THANK YOU" to everyone who took the time to reply to me. I hope that a blanket thanks will do. :-) I've come to the conclusion that it is indeed BLODA. The box in question is my Corporate IT Laptop With All The Mandated Software and I can't disable anti-virus or any of the

RE: stuff running slowly

2012-08-28 Thread James Johnston
> -Original Message- > Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2012 07:09 > Cc: Aharon Robbins > Subject: Re: stuff running slowly > > On 8/27/2012 11:28 PM, Aharon Robbins wrote: > > Michael, > > > > Thanks for your note. I understand that process creation on Wind

Re: stuff running slowly

2012-08-28 Thread marco atzeri
On 8/26/2012 10:03 AM, arn...@skeeve.com wrote: Hi. Please cc me on any answers, as I am not subscribed to the list. I have a recent (a few weeeks old) cygwin install on my Win 7 laptop Core i5 (Sandy Bridge) + an SSD. When I first did the install I thought I saw a performance improvement over

Re: stuff running slowly

2012-08-28 Thread Gregory M. Turner
On 8/27/2012 11:28 PM, Aharon Robbins wrote: Michael, Thanks for your note. I understand that process creation on Windows is slower than on Linux. But what I'm seeing is off by a few orders of magnitude. Cygwin on Windows 7 on a Sandy Bridge Core i5 with 4 Gig of memory is PAINFULLY slower than

Re: stuff running slowly

2012-08-27 Thread Aharon Robbins
Michael, Thanks for your note. I understand that process creation on Windows is slower than on Linux. But what I'm seeing is off by a few orders of magnitude. Cygwin on Windows 7 on a Sandy Bridge Core i5 with 4 Gig of memory is PAINFULLY slower than even my 7 year old Power PC Macbook G4 running

Re: stuff running slowly

2012-08-26 Thread Michael Henry
On 08/26/2012 04:03 AM, arn...@skeeve.com wrote: > Running > > ./configure && make && make check > > in the gawk master branch takes close to half an hour, maybe more! On > simlar hardware under Linux, it takes less than a minute. I've found on my hardware that launching a new process in Windows i

stuff running slowly

2012-08-26 Thread arnold
Hi. Please cc me on any answers, as I am not subscribed to the list. I have a recent (a few weeeks old) cygwin install on my Win 7 laptop Core i5 (Sandy Bridge) + an SSD. When I first did the install I thought I saw a performance improvement over the ~ 1 year old install I had. In the past two