Re: why is make so bloody slow (for me)

[Kevin Layer <layer@franz.com>]

>> 
>> Just to make sure, you are not using a network drive to build on, are you?  
>> For me, doing that in Windows NT (using NFS or clearcase MVFS network 
>> filesystems) makes builds run a factor of 10-50 slower, even though they are 
>> fast as ever under Linux or FreeBSD on the same physical box.  I chalk it up 
>> to poor network code in Microsoft OS.

No networks drives in my path, nor is my current working directory on
a remote machine.  I do have some mounted, though.

>> 
>> Dave
>>  
>> >I'm running Windows 2000 on a PIII 700 with 256mb of PC100 ECC RAM.
>> >It's not the machine, obviously.  It's probably win2k, but I thought
>> >I'd ask...
>> >
>> >I'm running the V1.0 of cygwin.
>> >
>> >The command "make --debug" gives this output:
>> >
>> >  GNU Make version 3.77, by Richard Stallman and Roland McGrath.
>> >  Copyright (C) 1988, 89, 90, 91, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98
>> >	  Free Software Foundation, Inc.
>> >  This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.
>> >  There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A
>> >  PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
>> >
>> >  Report bugs to <bug-make@gnu.org>.
>> >
>> >  Reading makefiles...
>> >  Reading makefile `makefile'...
>> >  Reading makefile `../makefile.top' (search path) (no ~ expansion)...
>> >  Reading makefile `../makefile.defs' (search path) (no ~ expansion)...
>> >  Got a SIGCHLD; 1 unreaped children.
>> >  Got a SIGCHLD; 1 unreaped children.
>> >  Got a SIGCHLD; 1 unreaped children.
>> >  Got a SIGCHLD; 1 unreaped children.
>> >
>> >There is a 10 second pause after each of the above 4 lines is
>> >printed.  The overall effect is that it takes a good minute or two to
>> >get to doing some real work.
>> >
>> >I upgraded my processor and NT (from 4.0sp6a) around the same time,
>> >but I can swear it never was this slow.
>> >
>> >I have a bunch of $(shell ...) in lines my makefile.
>> >I have the environment variable MAKE_MODE set to UNIX.
>> >
>> >Ideas?
>> >
>> >	Kevin Layer
>> >
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>> David Deaven        deaven@execpc.com
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