On Mon, 2 Dec 2024 19:57:25 +0000
Steven Buehler wrote:
> I am experiencing an abnormal number of page-faults per second (averaging 800 
> to over 2000) when using Cygwin within the Windows Terminal app. This 
> produces visible stutters and cursor movement during terminal screen redraws.
> 
> I have opened an issue on the Windows Terminal GitHub issues page. The 
> initial investigation by one of the Windows Terminal developers has 
> determined that "Cygwin is calling console APIs in its steady state. It looks 
> like it's calling GetConsoleProcessList in a tight loop, which results in the 
> allocation of a new buffer that is returned to their process via condrv's 
> ioctl interface. I don't think there's anything we can do about that, other 
> than stopping them from doing so."
> 
> Following this response, I am attempting to bring this issue to the Cygwin 
> developer team's awareness for a possible resolution. Please see 
> https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/issues/18264 for a detailed discussion 
> and accompanying video demonstration of the page-fault counter.

Thanks for the report.
However, I cannot reproduce your problem.
Which cygwin version do you use?

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