Verrry slooowww when PATH is set to 60 directories

Verrry slooowww when PATH is set to 60 directories

[Guy T. Moore Jr.]

I am getting extremely slow execution of make.exe when I set my
PATH inside the Makefile to about 4000 characters long (total of 60 different directories)
inside a Cygwin v1.0 window on WinNT 4.0.

Instead of the make completing in 10 seconds, it takes 8+ minutes.

Task manager shows that the PC is mostly idle with no huge memory
consumption from any one process.

Any resources I can bump up?

I have 128MB on the PC and Task Manger only shows 83MB being used
and only 1% of CPU being utilized.


Ideas?

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Re: Verrry slooowww when PATH is set to 60 directories

[Earnie Boyd]

--- "Guy T. Moore Jr." <gmoore@openmarket.com> wrote:
> I am getting extremely slow execution of make.exe when I set my
> PATH inside the Makefile to about 4000 characters long (total of 60 different
> directories)
> inside a Cygwin v1.0 window on WinNT 4.0.
> 

This is known.  Keep the path minimal.  Directories on networked drives are the
slowest.  You can modify PATH for cygwin by exporting a modified path from the
~/.bashrc file.  This way you can leave the Windows PATH alone.



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