On Jun 22, 2015, at 11:14 AM, m0viefreak <m0viefreak...@googlemail.com> wrote: > > > Hello, > > I noticed that there is long delay when getting the content of /proc/ladavg: > > $ time cat /proc/loadavg > 0.00 0.00 0.00 1/16 > cat /proc/loadavg 0.01s user 1.47s system 100% cpu 1.480 total > > I am aware that loadavg is not meaningful on cygwin and always returns > "0 0 0", but it is used in many programs and scripts. For example I > noticed it with my .bashrc/.zshrc that I copied from another (native > linux) system. > > This slowdown also seems to affect programs like 'top' which takes a > long time to start and behaves very sluggish when navigating due to > updating those values. > > Is there a reason it takes that long to react? On every other system > getting the value is instant.
WFM. $ uname -a CYGWIN_NT-6.1 SRSMBPROWIN 2.0.4(0.287/5/3) 2015-06-09 12:20 i686 Cygwin $ time cat /proc/loadavg 0.00 0.00 0.00 1/3 real 0m0.031s user 0m0.015s sys 0m0.000s -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple