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Szymon Lapinski wrote:
> Recently I found a serious performance degradation in my gawk scripts 
> while running on WinXP x64 SP2, it appears that this is not only gawk 
> problem, but spawning child processes in a subshell at all.

Your cygcheck looks clean.

Child processes failing means that there could be apps running on your 
machine as a result of the software updates you had.

Check this message from Dave Korn explaining the BLODA:

http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2007-08/msg00197.html

And here is a [partial] list of those apps:

http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-talk/2007-q1/msg00234.html

Is there some chance you are running any of them?

Thank you very much!

Best Regards,

Carlo

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