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Re: cygwin-1.5.24-2 serious shell execution performance degradation on WinXP x64 SP2
- From: Carlo Florendo <subscribermail at gmail dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Tue, 04 Sep 2007 09:49:12 +0800
- Subject: Re: cygwin-1.5.24-2 serious shell execution performance degradation on WinXP x64 SP2
- References: <46DBE9ED.2050803@syncad.com>
Szymon Lapinski wrote:
Recently I found a serious performance degradation in my gawk scripts
while running on WinXP x64 SP2, it appears that this is not only gawk
problem, but spawning child processes in a subshell at all.
Your cygcheck looks clean.
Child processes failing means that there could be apps running on your
machine as a result of the software updates you had.
Check this message from Dave Korn explaining the BLODA:
http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2007-08/msg00197.html
And here is a [partial] list of those apps:
http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-talk/2007-q1/msg00234.html
Is there some chance you are running any of them?
Thank you very much!
Best Regards,
Carlo
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