I've noticed that when I invoke the bjam command it launches two bjam processes (in the task manager) and that they allocate around 170 Mb each out of 512 Mb making my computer useless and the whole (install) process takes hours to days...
<br><br>Regards.<br>- Arthur<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 5/24/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Adam Peterson</b> &lt;<a href="mailto:adamw@friscopetersons.com">adamw@friscopetersons.com</a>&gt; wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">






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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">Eons ago, one company I was at used cygwin and my 
builds were orders of magnitudes slower then others (hours vs minutes).&nbsp; 
With closer investigation, the build process spawned lots of command shells and 
each one took several seconds to start.&nbsp; After removing and reinstalling 
the cygwin, my builds were back in the minutes category.</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">Just a thought...</font></div>
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  [1.34.0] building on cygwin fails out of the box</div>
  <div><br></div>basically yeah.. common.copy takes about 85 percent of the 
  time. <br><br>
  <div><span class="gmail_quote">On 5/24/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Vladimir 
  Prus</b> &lt;<a href="mailto:ghost@cs.msu.su" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">ghost@cs.msu.su</a>&gt; wrote: 
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    ping wang wrote:<br><br>&gt; hey thanks.. the ./configure make install now 
    works .. but there is some <br>&gt; problem with the build process.. for 
    some reason on cygwin the<br>&gt; installation happens to be super slow on 
    my computer.. installing boost<br>&gt; through dev-cpp takes 15 mintues 
    top..installing through cygwin for some <br>&gt; reason takes 5 hours ... ( 
    common.copy). I know its a little off topic..<br>&gt; but taking 5 hours to 
    install boost shouldn&#39;t be common..<br><br>This is indeed unexpected, but I 
    have no idea what could be wrong. Is <br>most of this time indeed spent 
    copying files?<br><br>- 
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