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Date:	Thu, 03 Mar 2005 11:53:21 -0800
From:	David Rothenberger <daveroth AT acm DOT org>
Subject:	Re: Slow pipes after upgrade cygwin 1.5.12-1->1.5.13-1 when running boinc
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On 3/3/2005 8:36 AM, Bengt-Arne Fjellner wrote:
> With boinc running einstein AT home at lowest priority ( uses 100% cpu but yields easily)
> simple pipes takes a long time.
> Example: from a bash prompt
> echo hello|grep -v xyz
> with boinc running and 1.5.13-1 takes about 7 seconds.
> if i stop boinc it takes parts of a second.
> after downgrade to 1.5.12-1 with boinc running: parts of a second.
> 
> i have seen this on two different computers one HT one normal.

I was able to reproduce this without using BOINC.

I started two cmd.exe shells. In the first shell, I ran:

  sh -c 'nice -20 sh -c "while true; do :; done"'

Then, in the second cmd shell, I ran "sh" to start an ash shell I typed:

  echo hello | grep -v xyz

This takes several seconds to complete on a non-HT machine. It runs
quickly with 1.5.12.

I also noticed that if I ran

   sh -c 'echo hello | grep -v xyz'

from a cmd.exe shell, it completed quickly with 1.5.13.

The latest 20050303 snapshot fixed this problem for me. It also fixed
the problem I was having with BOINC.

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