Re: [Boost-users] [work] Re: [1.34.0] building on cygwin fails out of the box

From: Arthur Carlsson (arthur_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-05-24 17:43:23

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...

Regards.
- Arthur

On 5/24/07, Adam Peterson <adamw_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>
>  Eons ago, one company I was at used cygwin and my builds were orders of
> magnitudes slower then others (hours vs minutes).  With closer
> investigation, the build process spawned lots of command shells and each one
> took several seconds to start.  After removing and reinstalling the cygwin,
> my builds were back in the minutes category.
>
> Just a thought...
>
> Adam
> ----- Original Message -----
>
> *From:* chun ping wang <cablepuff_at_[hidden]>
> *To:* boost-users_at_[hidden]
> *Sent:* Thursday, May 24, 2007 1:51 PM
> *Subject:* [work] Re: [Boost-users] [1.34.0] building on cygwin fails out
> of the box
>
> basically yeah.. common.copy takes about 85 percent of the time.
>
> On 5/24/07, Vladimir Prus <ghost_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> >
> > chun ping wang wrote:
> >
> > > hey thanks.. the ./configure make install now works .. but there is
> > some
> > > problem with the build process.. for some reason on cygwin the
> > > installation happens to be super slow on my computer.. installing
> > boost
> > > through dev-cpp takes 15 mintues top..installing through cygwin for
> > some
> > > reason takes 5 hours ... ( common.copy). I know its a little off
> > topic..
> > > but taking 5 hours to install boost shouldn't be common..
> >
> > This is indeed unexpected, but I have no idea what could be wrong. Is
> > most of this time indeed spent copying files?
> >
> > - Volodya
> >
> >
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