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Re: fork() unbearable in VM guest
- From: Mark Geisert <mark at maxrnd dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2010 05:16:08 +0000 (UTC)
- Subject: Re: fork() unbearable in VM guest
- References: <4C68194B.1070409@gmail.com>
Daniel Colascione writes:
> I'm running Cygwin in a fresh 32-bit Windows 7 VirtualBox guest (on an
> OS X code) --- and performance is even more unbearable than usual: each
> process spawned from bash takes about 800ms; on my Windows 7 64-bit box,
> I get at least 8-9 forks per second.
>
> Any idea what could be wrong?
You mean, besides the additional layer of emulation? You are comparing apples
to oranges in more ways than one.
..mark
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