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Re: Possible Defect: Long delay in some progam executions
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According to Gregory Rosensteel on 4/15/2008 1:46 PM:
| Hello,
| I performed a fresh install of cygwin on windows XP. I am seeing
| that some commands take a really long time to execute, I was wondering
| if anyone else is experience this. For example, the 'which' command
| takes 2s while the 'pwd' command runs just fine. Please see my sample
| output below and if you have encountered this before, let me know
| what's up!
Windows is notoriously slow at path searching (particularly if there is a
network path or heavily populated directory encountered during the search)
and process spawning (at least, when emulating fork on top of windows
API). Remember, 'pwd' is a shell builtin, while 'which' is an external
executable, so in your example, you are only doing a PATH search for
'which'. One other thing to check is if you have any
http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#BLODA interfering with process creation.
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Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well!
Eric Blake ebb9@byu.net
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