As of today, I'm experiencing intermittent five-second pauses when I run Cygwin processes. Even the simplest executables (ls, mkdir) can experience these freezes. I can't break out of them with ctrl-c. I stripped down my PATH to /usr/bin with no effect. My Cygwin installation and home directory are on a local drive.
It sometimes seems to happen on process exit. For example, 'ls --help' will sometimes print the help and then freeze. Long-running interactive processes (vim, less) don't seem to freeze during execution. I can make it happen more often by stressing the CPU with other Cygwin processes. For example, a terminal running "while true; do time ls>/dev/null; sleep 1; done" will only show the problem once in a while. If I open another terminal and run "while true; do true; done", it happens constantly. This only started today, when I ran setup.exe and upgraded everything, including the cygwin package. Was something changed that might be causing this? CYGWIN_NT-5.1 HetzlerXP 1.7.9(0.237/5/3) 2011-03-29 10:10 i686 Cygwin on WinXP. Thanks, Jeremy Hetzler
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