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Re: why is make so bloody slow (for me)
- To: Kevin Layer <layer at franz dot com>
- Subject: Re: why is make so bloody slow (for me)
- From: David Deaven <deaven at execpc dot com>
- Date: Sun, 09 Apr 2000 14:11:40 -0500
- cc: cygwin at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
Just to make sure, you are not using a network drive to build on, are you?
For me, doing that in Windows NT (using NFS or clearcase MVFS network
filesystems) makes builds run a factor of 10-50 slower, even though they are
fast as ever under Linux or FreeBSD on the same physical box. I chalk it up
to poor network code in Microsoft OS.
Dave
>I'm running Windows 2000 on a PIII 700 with 256mb of PC100 ECC RAM.
>It's not the machine, obviously. It's probably win2k, but I thought
>I'd ask...
>
>I'm running the V1.0 of cygwin.
>
>The command "make --debug" gives this output:
>
> GNU Make version 3.77, by Richard Stallman and Roland McGrath.
> Copyright (C) 1988, 89, 90, 91, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98
> Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.
> There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A
> PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
>
> Report bugs to <bug-make@gnu.org>.
>
> Reading makefiles...
> Reading makefile `makefile'...
> Reading makefile `../makefile.top' (search path) (no ~ expansion)...
> Reading makefile `../makefile.defs' (search path) (no ~ expansion)...
> Got a SIGCHLD; 1 unreaped children.
> Got a SIGCHLD; 1 unreaped children.
> Got a SIGCHLD; 1 unreaped children.
> Got a SIGCHLD; 1 unreaped children.
>
>There is a 10 second pause after each of the above 4 lines is
>printed. The overall effect is that it takes a good minute or two to
>get to doing some real work.
>
>I upgraded my processor and NT (from 4.0sp6a) around the same time,
>but I can swear it never was this slow.
>
>I have a bunch of $(shell ...) in lines my makefile.
>I have the environment variable MAKE_MODE set to UNIX.
>
>Ideas?
>
> Kevin Layer
>
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