On Thu, Apr 18, 2002 at 04:31:56PM +0100, Chris January wrote: >> Every now and again (every 15-30 minutes or so), my cygwin apps >> pause for 1-2 MINUTES.... I have written a simple script to capture >> this behaviour: > >Yes, I've seen this behaviour. It's something to do with file I/O IIRC. 100% >reproducible in a small program I have. Here's an strace demonstrating the >problem:
From the code, the only thing here that I can see which could take any time is the set_security_attribute() call, which is only invoked if you have CYGWIN=ntsec. > 97 7911229 [main] base 2872 fhandler_base::open: >(C:\cygwin\opt\kde2\lib\cygkatecore.dll, 0x110000) >*** big long pause *** >11237820 19149049 [main] base 2872 fhandler_base::open: 0x19C = CreateFileA >(C:\cygwin\opt\kde2\lib\cygkatecore.dll, 0x8 >0000000, 0x7, 0x22F764, 0x3, 0x2000080, 0) cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/