Between Cygwin1.dll version 1.3.17 and 1.3.18, changes were made to the manner in which I/O to and from pipes is handled. It improved the behavior of some CD recording software. This had the unfortunate side-effect of introducing very long delays to pipe I/O whenever there was any CPU demand, regardless of how low a priority the CPU-demanding process or thread was assigned.
Preliminary reports from those using snapshots of the pre-1.3.19 release indicate the problem has been solved. In the mean-time, either shut down SETI@home, install 1.3.17 of the cygwin package, avoid using pipes in Cygwin or work on your patience.
Randall Schulz
At 09:37 2003-01-22, petar marinov wrote:
Hello, Two days ago I installed the latest version of cygwin.I've been happily using previous versions for a long time. Now I noticed that bash pauses for about 15-20 seconds before showing the prompt. ... Decided to just stop seti@home which is running on the machine. Everything run flowlessy. Repeated running bash with and withough seti@home, it confirmed my obvesrvation. What can be the problem? -petar
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