Thursday, March 10, 2005
How large is the Cygwin installation?
> On average?
>
> At a minimum?
I did two clean installs...
Properties on c:\cygwin for the xastir-min install show 120 MB (149 MB on Disk)
Properties on c:\cygwin for xastir-devel show 365 MB (425 on Disk).
The "min" install has 10,654 files..
Seems that all windowing systems have a bit of a software bloat problem. The XYL's 2 GHz WinXP system with 768 MB ram makes the Xastir/Cygwin install nearly painless. It's fun to watch the memory used creep up to nearly 500 MB. Back when I had only 256 MB (only?) in the system, it would take a very long time and the CPU usage sat around 3%.
Disk bound swapping can really slow a compile.
Now the CPU is where it belongs during a compile - at 00%.
Bill
>
> At a minimum?
I did two clean installs...
Properties on c:\cygwin for the xastir-min install show 120 MB (149 MB on Disk)
Properties on c:\cygwin for xastir-devel show 365 MB (425 on Disk).
The "min" install has 10,654 files..
Seems that all windowing systems have a bit of a software bloat problem. The XYL's 2 GHz WinXP system with 768 MB ram makes the Xastir/Cygwin install nearly painless. It's fun to watch the memory used creep up to nearly 500 MB. Back when I had only 256 MB (only?) in the system, it would take a very long time and the CPU usage sat around 3%.
Disk bound swapping can really slow a compile.
Now the CPU is where it belongs during a compile - at 00%.
Bill
