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On Tue, 2002-09-10 at 00:41, Randall R Schulz wrote: > Hi, > > Running Cygwin Setup.exe seems to have the effect of flushing my system's > disk cache (I'm on Win2K Pro SP3 with 512 megabytes of RAM). In the > aftermath using other applications necessitates lots of in-paging and file > system cache reconstruction so they're very sluggish at first. This symptom > may be exacerbated by the fact that I keep all the packages cached locally > (source and binary) and installed (binary only). > > Are there options in the Windows I/O API that would allow Setup.exe to > bypass the system's disk cache when doing its MD5 checksum validation I/O? There are for NT, I'm not sure about 9x. Also, we're using the C library routines by and large at the moment, so that isn't an easy thing to test. Rob
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