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Re: B20 : Bash Problem, Slowing down after 4 hours running (win98)
- To: james@dattrax.demon.co.uk, cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com
- Subject: Re: B20 : Bash Problem, Slowing down after 4 hours running (win98)
- From: cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com
- Date: Wed, 9 Jun 1999 16:01:06 -0400
- References: <2955d053.248fbb18@aol.com>
On Wed, Jun 09, 1999 at 08:42:00AM -0400, N8TM@aol.com wrote:
>In a message dated 99-06-09 06:40:37 EDT, james@dattrax.demon.co.uk writes:
>
><< I wrote a script to covert 1000's of filenames to their lowercase
>equivalent. Worked fine but got slower and slower over time until 4 hours
>after I'd started it running it was really slow (mouse not moving properly).
>Nothing else was running at the time. Anyone else experienced this?? >>
>
>If you bring up Task Manager (or run ps in another window under W9X) you'll
>likely see phantom jobs. Kill them off one by one if they don't belong. The
>snapshot versions of cygwin don't leave as many processes running after
>completion.
The only thing that should produce "phantom jobs" are non-cygwin applications.
Make sure that your PATH includes the Cygwin bin directory prior to any other
directories.
cgf
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