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 X-Authentication-Warning: slinky.cs.nyu.edu: pechtcha owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2003 09:00:30 -0400 (EDT) From: Igor Pechtchanski Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com To: "Pensa, Pascal" cc: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Bash extremely slow when started via task scheduler In-Reply-To: <06CAA4D3753C53408D2CE6340B68444201D9454A@vbeexc02.emea.cpqcorp.net> Message-ID: References: <06CAA4D3753C53408D2CE6340B68444201D9454A@vbeexc02.emea.cpqcorp.net> Importance: Normal MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On Thu, 9 Oct 2003, Pensa, Pascal wrote: > Hi, > > As it's my first post, I hope I'm in the right list for my question, if > not I apologize and hope you'll tell me on which list I may ask (I > didn't have access to newsgroups from my location, only mail) > > I'm trying to schedule a bash script via the MS task scheduler, this > works well when the user set in task scheduler is the same as the logged > user, but if I change the user to any other account, the scripts becomes > *extremely* slow. Each time bash forks a command in the script it takes > approx 2 seconds before the command really executes. > > I searched through the faq and this list's history but didn't find > relevant response, so I hope you can help me. > > I tried to start bash in --norc --nologin, and after with --login, and > tried various combinations with no success, the script remains slow as > soon as the user logged on is not the same user set in the task > scheduler. > > Any idea ? > > The system is an win nt4 domain controller + all sp/patches, and of > course the latest cygwin (defaults packages installed, no more, no less) > > Regards, > Pascal Pensa Make one of the tasks start "strace -o bash_task.strace bash ..." instead of simply "bash ...", and look at the resulting bash_task.strace to see where the time goes. Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ igor@watson.ibm.com |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "I have since come to realize that being between your mentor and his route to the bathroom is a major career booster." -- Patrick Naughton -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/