Sam Edge wrote: > > Andrew might want to consider compiling Cygwin-Apache with the native > Winsock option. This way it still lives in the Cygwin file system > space so has the POSIX/Linux style configuration files but bypasses > the Cygwin Berkeley->Winsock socket API translation. Apparently this > helps.
that's right. Apache for Cygwin with Winsock was definetly faster. But still Apache for Windows outperforms it's Cygwin counterpart. > (But I suspect the majority of the performance difference Stipe has > found is the use of threads in the native Windows version against > forking child processes in the *X versions which is a more expensive > operation.) yep. And of course the general bottleneck of emulating the whole POSIX system call suite in Win32. Stipe [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------------------- Wapme Systems AG Vogelsanger Weg 80 40470 Düsseldorf Tel: +49-211-74845-0 Fax: +49-211-74845-299 E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Internet: http://www.wapme-systems.de ------------------------------------------------------------------- wapme.net - wherever you are -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/