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On 10/15/07, Olivier Langlois <Olivier DOT Langlois AT streamtheworld DOT com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am currently using Kaspersky AVS but I am looking for a replacement because using it with Cygwin brings my system unstable whenever a bunch of child processes are spawn (ie: find . -name '*.h' -exec grep -l pattern {} \;'. Someone has even put the blame on Cygwin on their forum:
[...]
> Olivier Langlois


While not exactly an answer to your question, generally using "find"
with -exec is horribly inefficient.  In many cases, you can get the
same result by using:
    find -name '*.h' | xargs grep -l pattern
Your version spawns a new grep process for every single file, while
using xargs only spawns a new process when the max argument length has
been reached.  If the problem comes from kaspersky because of the
process creation overhead, that would help you out a LOT.  You'll
probably also notice that your greps go much faster.

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