Mail Archives: cygwin/2004/06/14/14:39:06
On Sun, 13 Jun 2004, fergus wrote:
> >> [unknown ...
>
> Sorry to provide an afterthought, but this might be helpful I hope:
>
> Summarising, as looking through any of the logfiles sorted or otherwise is a
> bit of a bind, I think the explanation of the sloth must lie somewhere in
> the output of
>
> strace /bin/wish84 | grep unknown
This just refers to an unnamed thread, probably spawned via non-Cygwin
means.
> (a) This output always contains a reference to _cygtls
All threads get a Cygwin thread local storage structure at the base of
their stack.
> (b) Occasonally, on the very slow Toshiba at least, the output is null
> (nothing "unknown") corresponding to the cases when wish84 is not so slow to
> produce the display panel.
I don't know why an unamed thread would only occasionally be spawned, nor
why it would be particularly slow.
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