On 10/15/07, Olivier Langlois <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am currently using Kaspersky AVS but I am looking for a replacement because
> using it with Cygwin brings my system unstable whenever a bunch of child
> processes are spawn (ie: find . -name '*.h' -exec grep -l pattern {} \;'.
> Someone has even put the blame on Cygwin on their forum:
[...]
> Olivier Langlois
While not exactly an answer to your question, generally using "find"
with -exec is horribly inefficient. In many cases, you can get the
same result by using:
find -name '*.h' | xargs grep -l pattern
Your version spawns a new grep process for every single file, while
using xargs only spawns a new process when the max argument length has
been reached. If the problem comes from kaspersky because of the
process creation overhead, that would help you out a LOT. You'll
probably also notice that your greps go much faster.
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