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From: Andrey Repin <anrdaemon@yandex.ru>
To: cygwin@kosowsky.org, cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Renaming (with 'mv') very large files is SLOW
Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2022 11:47:59 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <139085903.20220201114759@yandex.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <25079.64935.73349.331715@consult.pretender>

Greetings, cygwin@kosowsky.org!

> I literally am typing something like:
>   mv foo bar

> In Linux, that just edits the file system table & inode...

> UPDATE...
> I just tried a second 'mv' and it was near instantaneous.
> (and similarly with subsequent renaming of the same file)
> So perhaps not a 'Cygwin' thing but something going on within Windows.

> Could it be that the first 'mv' triggered an anti-virus read of the file since
> perhaps it detects it as a new/changed file?

> But if so, would 'mv' (under Task Manager) be showing the 100+ MB/s disk activity?

Install processmanager and check what actual activity is happening on that
file. Is it reading or writing? Who is doing that?


-- 
With best regards,
Andrey Repin
Tuesday, February 1, 2022 11:47:15

Sorry for my terrible english...


      parent reply	other threads:[~2022-02-01  8:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-01-31 14:52 cygwin
2022-01-31 14:59 ` Eliot Moss
2022-01-31 15:13   ` René Berber
2022-01-31 15:20     ` cygwin
2022-01-31 15:51       ` [EXTERNAL] " Lavrentiev, Anton (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [C]
2022-01-31 15:17   ` cygwin
2022-01-31 21:36     ` Adam Dinwoodie
2022-02-02 17:09       ` L A Walsh
2022-02-01  8:47     ` Andrey Repin [this message]

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