Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com From: Chris Faylor Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2000 10:57:44 -0400 To: cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com Subject: Re: Shell spawning and environment problem on W2K Message-ID: <20000803105744.E11801@cygnus.com> Reply-To: cygwin@sources.redhat.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com References: <85256930.0051502E.00@nyc-ntgw-n01.ny.jpmorgan.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.6i In-Reply-To: <85256930.0051502E.00@nyc-ntgw-n01.ny.jpmorgan.com>; from yap_noel@jpmorgan.com on Thu, Aug 03, 2000 at 10:48:12AM -0400 On Thu, Aug 03, 2000 at 10:48:12AM -0400, Noel L Yap wrote: >IIRC, there's an option --load-max or --max-load or something like that that's >supposed to launch as many jobs as possible up to the max load you specify. I >really doubt this'll work under NT, but it's worth a shot (I've been pleasantly >surprised by Cygwin before). It won't work. This relies on a working method for getting the load average on the machine which is pretty difficult on NT and, AFAIK, impossible on W9x. If you try this you'll probably end up swamping your system. cgf -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com