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Re: pipe performance problem
- From: "Max Bowsher" <maxb at ukf dot net>
- To: "thomas" <tom at huno dot net>,<cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2002 08:19:47 -0000
- Subject: Re: pipe performance problem
- References: <777770015.20021122040845@huno.net>
thomas <tom@huno.net> wrote:
> it seems that the pipe code with recent cygwin versions causes a
> performance problem when much data (3.6 MB per second in this case) is
> transferred from one program to another.
>
> i use mkisofs to make an iso filesystem from files on the fly and pipe
> the output directly to cdrecord which writes the fs to the cd-r. cmd
> line looks like this:
>
> mkisofs -J -R -l * | cdrecord -dev=1,0,0 -v -dummy -speed=24 -
Out of interest, does it work if you use a temporary file, instead of a
pipe?
(Just want to narrow the problem as far as possible).
Max.
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