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slooooow linking
zabzonk:
As someone else suggested, try linking from the command line to exclude CB from the equation. To do this:
a) Make sure that the GCC bin directory is on your path
b) Copy the link command line that gets displayed in the CB Build Log to a Windows command line prompt running in your CB project's root directory.
In fact, it might be a good idea to post the link command line here too, so we can take a look at it.
oBFusCATed:
--- Quote from: wilcomir on October 27, 2009, 12:43:37 pm ---hi everybody!
I've tried to disable my AV, but nothing happened. it always takes over a minute to link a file... any other ideas?
thank you!
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Is you harddrive heavily fragmented?
zabzonk:
> Is you harddrive heavily fragmented?
This shouldn't really make much difference - the linker does most of its work in memory. My ancient machine has a FAT32 file system I havent defragmented in years, but it has no linker speed problems.
MortenMacFly:
--- Quote from: wilcomir on October 27, 2009, 12:43:37 pm ---any other ideas?
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Try "process explorer" from "SysInternals" (http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896653.aspx) and track what exactly happens during linking. Notice that you'll need to setup a filter properly so you only see the relevant parts. Otherwise you'll be flooded with information. ;-)
Biplab:
--- Quote from: thomas on October 26, 2009, 10:53:10 am ---
--- Quote from: zabzonk on October 25, 2009, 02:04:21 pm ---have you tried linking with your AV software disabled?
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Antivirus software may indeed be the problem. In particular Kaspersky and Norten will make your computer practically unusable for development, they're as bad or worse than the malware that they presumably prevent.
I've been using Kaspersky because you get indefinite free licenses for it from some big computer magazine here, and surely something that's free can't be so bad that it doesn't warrant the price, can it? This assumption is wrong. Kaspersky will increase compile times by about 3/4 and will render quad-core CPUs as well as low-latency storage such as a SSD RAID entirely useless. On top of that, it will perform some kind of "deep scan" on new executables that run immediately after being created (such as 100% of everything that comes out the IDE when you develop, duh), which will freeze the computer for 15-20 seconds.
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I also have a similar experience. I am currently using K*spersky antivirus suite. It does increase the build time as it wants to freeze the whole pc to see if a newly created executable is a virus or not. For example when u run configure script in MSYS or in CygWin, every conftest.exe is checked for virus and other malwares. End result - super slow compilation.
I faced even other problem with it. While running a configure script under MSYS, it wants me to confirm that every process launched by sh.exe or any child process is safe to run or not. End result - millions of clicks to let it know that I want to run the configure script. Putting all related process to safe list yields no result.
I had to give up and resort to cross-compilation. When I really need to compile anything under MSYS, I have to turn off internet connection and antivirus & then everything compiles fine. Moral of the story is that antivirus programs are the most common culprit for pc slowdown.
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