[Zope-dev] Zope & Cygwin

Andreas Jung andreas@andreas-jung.com
Wed, 17 Oct 2001 07:00:23 -0400


I think the main reason for bad performance of any network related
application under Cygwin is the network layer. My observation is
that network is usually 10 to 25% of the normal throughput under Windows.
I have also seen that Cgywin performs slower on Windows 2000  than on
Windows ME.

Andreas
----- Original Message -----
From: "Chris McDonough" <chrism@zope.com>
To: "Oliver Bleutgen" <myzope@gmx.net>; <zope-dev@zope.org>
Sent: Wednesday, October 17, 2001 06:51
Subject: Re: [Zope-dev] Zope & Cygwin


> > One thing I haven't seen mentioned is that cygwin seems to impose
> > a noticeable performance hit for an application running under it,
> > compared to a "native" port.
>
> Zope seems pretty slow under Cygwin.  I can't really put a figure on it
> because of the problem I'm having using "ab" against it so far (and my
lack
> of other structured testing).  But for development I'm not too concerned
> about how fast it is.. it's fantastic.
>
> - C
>
>
>
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