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Date: Wed, 9 Jun 1999 16:01:06 -0400
From: cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com
To: james@dattrax.demon.co.uk, cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com
Subject: Re: B20 : Bash Problem, Slowing down after 4 hours running (win98)
Message-ID: <19990609160106.A1130@cygnus.com>
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In-Reply-To: <2955d053.248fbb18@aol.com>; from N8TM@aol.com on Wed, Jun 09, 1999 at 08:42:00AM -0400

On Wed, Jun 09, 1999 at 08:42:00AM -0400, N8TM@aol.com wrote:
>In a message dated 99-06-09 06:40:37 EDT, james@dattrax.demon.co.uk writes:
>
><< I wrote a script to covert 1000's of filenames to their lowercase 
>equivalent.  Worked fine but got slower and slower over time until 4 hours 
>after I'd started it running it was really slow (mouse not moving properly).  
>Nothing else was running at the time.  Anyone else experienced this?? >>
>
>If you bring up Task Manager (or run ps in another window under W9X) you'll 
>likely see phantom jobs. Kill them off one by one if they don't belong.  The 
>snapshot versions of cygwin don't leave as many processes running after 
>completion.

The only thing that should produce "phantom jobs" are non-cygwin applications.
Make sure that your PATH includes the Cygwin bin directory prior to any other
directories.

cgf

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