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Re: groan: installation
- From: nferrier at tapsellferrier dot co dot uk
- To: Jeff Sturm <jsturm at one-point dot com>
- Cc: Adam Megacz <gcj at lists dot megacz dot com>, Bryce McKinlay <bryce at waitaki dot otago dot ac dot nz>, <tromey at redhat dot com>, <java at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Date: 04 Nov 2002 09:18:44 +0000
- Subject: Re: groan: installation
- References: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0211031943360.12871-100000@ops2.one-point.com>
Jeff Sturm <jsturm@one-point.com> writes:
> On 3 Nov 2002, Nic Ferrier wrote:
> > I get the same thing but also with the install.sh calls. In my case
> > the installation is copying a file from one filesystem to another so
> > the disc driver is getting involved there, I guess that's why it's
> > slow.
>
> On what OS? The Linux kernel delays writing metadata unless you mount
> with the `sync' option. Windows OTOH is horribly slow at creat/unlink
> calls (or whatever they are called in win32).
On linux on a powermac.
I guess if it's not that it's the make processing of the loop.
The other biggie (on my system anyway) is the proc time it takes to
ranlib the libraries.
Nic