You're on W2K, I'm on XP, maybe there's a difference? I can easily reproduce nearly 0% CPU with 1000 threads if no Cygwin process is present and nearly 99% if a Cygwin process is present.
I have XP SP2 laptop and it occures on 200 threads Raul Metsma -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/