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

From: Bobby Ward (bobbyrward_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-05-24 18:58:07

I've noticed the same symptoms.  Both processes using > 150M of memory.

On 5/24/07, Arthur Carlsson <arthur_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>
> 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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