Message-Id: <200204171807.g3HI7Cd16260@delorie.com> Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com From: "Mark Paulus" To: "cygwin@cygwin.com" , "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2002 12:07:13 -0600 Reply-To: "Mark Paulus" In-Reply-To: <4.3.1.2.20020417125559.057c1ec8@pop.ma.ultranet.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: cygwin randomly pauses under Win2k Ah yes. My instructor for our Advanced Unix course was always fond of stating: "It is perfectly acceptable to smother your performance problems with hardware." On Wed, 17 Apr 2002 12:59:10 -0400, Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc) wrote: >Yep. That's the occasional detriment of strace. It hides the problem you're >looking to track. I wouldn't dismiss it's potential as a solution for your >problem so quickly though. strace with a much larger disk and a top-of-the- >line processor is a clear win! ;-) > >Sorry it wasn't more help to you. > >Larry Hall lhall@rfk.com >RFK Partners, Inc. http://www.rfk.com >838 Washington Street (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office >Holliston, MA 01746 (508) 893-9889 - FAX > > > >At 12:56 PM 4/17/2002, Mark Paulus wrote: >>Great! >> >>I set up a strace on the 'doit script', and the very act of >>running strace seems to make everything behave as >>expected. But, I can't run this thing all the time, as >>strace generates a small quantity of output. >>Oh well, I'll keep monitoring it for a while and see what >>comes out..... >> >> >> >> >>On Tue, 16 Apr 2002 12:17:11 -0400, Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc) wrote: >> >> >At 12:03 PM 4/16/2002, Mark Paulus wrote: >> >>I have this wierd behaviour, and it is causing some stats that I >> >>run to whack out..... >> >> >> >>Every now and again (every 15-30 minutes or so), my cygwin apps >> >>pause for 1-2 MINUTES.... I have written a simple script to capture >> >>this behaviour: >> > >> > >> >If you're interested in trying to track down why you see this behavior, you >> >might want to try running with strace. With it, you should be able to >> >pinpoint any Cygwin internals that are in force when you see this pause. >> > >> > >> >Larry Hall lhall@rfk.com >> >RFK Partners, Inc. http://www.rfk.com >> >838 Washington Street (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office >> >Holliston, MA 01746 (508) 893-9889 - FAX >> > >> > >> >-- >> >Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple >> >Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html >> >Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html >> >FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ >> > >> > -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/