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On Dec 9 15:05, Warren Young wrote: > On Dec 9, 2014, at 3:56 AM, Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com> wrote: > > > On Dec 8 15:14, Warren Young wrote: > >> On Dec 6, 2014, at 12:49 PM, Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com> wrote: > >> > >>> - Cygwin can now generate passwd/group entries directly from Windows > >> > >> donât use AD here, and /etc/passwd suffices > >> for my purposes > > > > You can still benefit, I hope. Even when using only the local SAM, the > > process startups should be a tad bit faster than when every exec'ed > > process has to read /etc/passwd and /etc/group files: > > Challengeâaccepted. > > I decided to do the nastiest thing I could think of to Cygwin: run a > configure script. ;) > > In my Windows 10 Technical Preview test VM, Cygwin 64 1.7.33 runs the > iperf3 configure script in 20 seconds. On upgrading to 1.7.34-002, > without doing anything to nsswitch.conf, the time remained the same. > On making the suggested change to nsswitch.conf, configure time went > *up* to 21 seconds. > > So, I moved the new nsswitch.conf back out of the way, relaunched > MinTTY, and configure time dropped its extra second. > > Hmm. Indeed, hmm. I see a tiny loss in performance myself. It's puzzeling. During the entire configure run only at the end are a few minor (but unnecessary) requests for account information. I'll investigate this in the next couple of days. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Maintainer cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat
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