Cygwin 1.3.18
+ Cygwin pipes
+ background, low-priority CPU load
= Long delays in Cygwin pipe I/O
Are you running SETI@home? That seems to be the most popular. It runs at the lowest priority, but still produces this symptom.
I've been ignored every time I pointed this out. I guess those of us who run Cygwin as well as background CPU-soaker apps will have to choose one or the other (or develop considerable patience while using Cygwin).
Randall Schulz
At 04:37 2003-01-15, Eugene Rosenzweig wrote:
Seemingly, whenever I use a pipe in bash the cygwin freezes for a long time. For example: 'echo a | cat' takes about 10 seconds to execute, 'bash -l -i' takes about a minute.I am not sure when the problem appeared. Might have been last cygwin dll release but I am not sure. First time I noticed was running 'bash -l -i'. I changed the cygwin.bat recently so for a while I thought it was my meddling but as far as I can see that is not the case. Right now the cygwin is quite unusable since any non-trivial command line takes a long time to execute.
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