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Re: Serious performance problems (new snapshot has some performance improvement)
Am Dienstag, 31. Mai 2005 12:05 schrieb Gerrit P. Haase:
> ralf.habacker@freenet.de wrote:
> > Am Montag, 30. Mai 2005 22:33 schrieb Gerrit P. Haase:
> >
> >>Anonymous wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>>My System:
> >>>#Set-up:
> >>>
> >>>$ g++ cygspd.cc -o cygspd-basic
> >>>$ g++ -O7 cygspd.cc -o cygspd-o7
> >>>$ g++ -fno-exceptions cygspd.cc -o cygspd-ne
> >>>$ g++ -O7 -fno-exceptions cygspd.cc -o cygspd-ne-o7
> >>>$ g++ -mno-cygwin cygspd.cc -o cygspd-mingw
> >>>$ g++ -O7 -mno-cygwin cygspd.cc -o cygspd-mingw-o7
> >>>$ g++ -fno-exceptions -mno-cygwin cygspd.cc -o cygspd-mingw-ne
> >>>$ g++ -O7 -fno-exceptions -mno-cygwin cygspd.cc -o cygspd-mingw-ne-o7
> >>>
> >>># cygwin.dll 1.5.17
> >>
> >>[...]
> >>
> >>>$ /bin/time -f "%E %S %U" cygspd-mingw cygspd.dat
> >>>0:03.11 0.00 0.02
> >>>$ /bin/time -f "%E %S %U" cygspd-mingw-o7 cygspd.dat
> >>>0:01.50 0.01 0.02
> >>>$ /bin/time -f "%E %S %U" cygspd-mingw-ne cygspd.dat
> >>>0:02.60 0.00 0.02
> >>>$ /bin/time -f "%E %S %U" cygspd-mingw-ne-o7 cygspd.dat
> >>>0:01.50 0.01 0.01
> >>>
> >>>#Snapshot DLL (No changes were made except swapping the dll.
> >>
> >>[...]
> >>
> >>>$ /bin/time -f "%E %S %U" cygspd-mingw cygspd.dat
> >>>0:02.78 0.00 0.01
> >>>$ /bin/time -f "%E %S %U" cygspd-mingw-o7 cygspd.dat
> >>>0:01.51 0.01 0.01
> >>>$ /bin/time -f "%E %S %U" cygspd-mingw-ne cygspd.dat
> >>>0:02.52 0.00 0.02
> >>>$ /bin/time -f "%E %S %U" cygspd-mingw-ne-o7 cygspd.dat
> >>>0:01.45 0.00 0.01
> >>
> >>Interesting, why is it faster when running a binary that doesn't
> >>depend on cygwin1.dll after swapping the DLL? Some Win caching mechanism?
> >
> >
> > I recognized this caching behavior with KDE/cygwin too. Under
> > http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/kde-cygwin/tools/fillmem/ there is a
> > tool, which could be used to minimize this influcence by clearing this
cache.
> > See the README for more informations.
>
> GlobalMemoryStatusEx is only available on Win2k and WinXP.
>
Does anyone know a similar function under win9x ?
Ralf
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