On Mon, Feb 27, 2006 at 12:17:01AM +0100, Rutger Nijlunsing wrote: >On Sun, Feb 26, 2006 at 02:55:52PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: >>On Thu, Feb 23, 2006 at 03:07:07PM +0100, Alex Riesen wrote: >>>filesystem is slow and locked down, and exec-attribute is NOT really >>>useful even on NTFS (it is somehow related to execute permission and >>>open files. I still cannot figure out how exactly are they related). >> >>Again, it's not clear if you're talking about Windows or Cygwin but >>under Cygwin, in the default configuration, the exec attribute means >>the same thing to cygwin as it does to linux. > >I don't know about native Windows speed, but comparing NutCracker with >Cygwin on a simple 'find . | wc -l' already gives a clue that looking >at Cygwin to benchmark NT file inspection IO will give a skewed >picture: > >##### NutCracker $ time find . | wc -l > >real 0m 1.44s >user 0m 0.45s >sys 0m 0.98s >25794 > >##### Cygwin $ time c:\\cygwin\\bin\\find . | wc -l > >real 0m 6.72s >user 0m 1.09s >sys 0m 5.59s >25794 > >##### CMD.EXE + DIR /S C:\PROJECT> c:\cygwin\bin\time cmd /c dir /s >>NUL 0.01user 0.01system 0:05.70elapsed 0%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata >6320maxresident)k 0inputs+0outputs (395major+0minor)pagefaults 0swaps > >##### Cygwin 'find -ls' (NutCracker doesn't have a '-ls') C:\PROJECT> >c:\cygwin\bin\time c:\cygwin\bin\find -ls | wc -l 2.79user 7.81system >0:10.60elapsed 100%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 14480maxresident)k 25794 I'm lost. What does this have to do with the exec attribute? Or, were you just climbing aboard the "Cygwin sure is slow" bandwagon? cgf - : send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html