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Re: Cygwin allocted time slice
* Christopher Faylor (Thu, 14 Jun 2007 11:45:12 -0400)
> On Thu, Jun 14, 2007 at 04:20:04PM +0100, Aaron Gray wrote:
> >> On Thu, Jun 14, 2007 at 04:15:40AM +0100, Aaron Gray wrote:
> >>> Cygwin seems to only use a small amount of time slice relative to the
> >>> ammount of time slice availiable. Compiles, builds and testsuite are
> >>> relly slow compared to MinGW which takes too much time.
> >>>
> >>> 'time' results confirm this. Process time is about 1/4 of the total
> >>> system time.
> >>>
> >>> It i very noticable on compiling and testing GCC as compared to the
> >>> same on Linux or MinGW.
> >>>
> >>> Is there any way to give Cygwin a bigger slice of the pie ?
> >>>
> >>> Say 50% or 75% ?
> >>
> >> How do you suppose Cygwin is managing this interesting feat of only
> >> using some of the CPU time? What Windows API is Cygwin using to just
> >> grab a small slice of the time?
> >
> > Weird I was getting very long compile times for GCC and on using 'time' was
> > getting indications that make was only getting 25% of total system time.
> >
> > I'll see if it is repeatable on another system.
> >
> >> As a follow-up question: Why do you suppose we are punishing you by
> >> not allowing Cygwin to use all of the CPU by default?
> >>
> >> Oh. Wait. WJM. Nevermind.
> >
> > Weird reply, no need to take the micky !
>
> You have apparently made an assumption that Cygwin is purposely using
> only a part of the CPU. What's weird about asking for your rationale
> for why anyone would write a program which did such a thing, leaving it
> to some undocumented procedure to get better performance? Why do you
> think we wouldn't just make this the default?
Aaron never said that "Cygwin" /purposely/, /actively/ uses only a
small part of the CPU time.
Aaron's scenario is perfectly possible: by "nice"ing (assigning a
different priority in Windows terms) all Cygwin processes.
So there really is no need to mock Aaron.
Thorsten
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