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From:	"Neal Symms" <nsymms AT redwar DOT us>
To:	<cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject:	RE: bash backtick operator very slow
Date:	Thu, 31 Mar 2005 13:41:43 -0600
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com [mailto:cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com]On Behalf
> Of Igor Pechtchanski
>
> > ~$ time hostname
> > MY_HOSTNAME
> > real    0m0.111s
> > user    0m0.060s
> > sys     0m0.040s
> > [...]
> >
> > ~$ time echo `hostname`
> > MY_HOSTNAME
> > real    0m6.175s
> > user    0m0.060s
> > sys     0m0.050s
> >
> > ..and that was a fast one.  Usually it takes > 7 seconds.
>
> Does <http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2005-03/msg00730.html> help?
>

Thanks; that's it exactly, Igor.  I was focusing on the backtick, but it
seems to have something to do with spawning shells while there is ANY
low-priority process sucking up all the idle CPU.

The latest cygwin1.dll snapshot solved this problem.  I didn't find the
answer in my searches because I was focusing on bash & backticks...

Neal


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