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Date: Sat, 28 May 2005 11:23:23 -0500
From: "Charles D. Russell" <worwor@bellsouth.net>
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Subject: Re: slow windows foreground operation after installing cygwin-1.5.17-1
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The new cygwin1.dll (1.5.17-1) now lets me run fortran programs with large
static arrays that occupy most of the available memory, but it is no longer
possible to run Windows programs (MSWord or even Windows Explorer)
in the foreground while a big math problem is chugging along in the
background. The foreground Windows process appears not to get enough 
priority in the
time sharing allocation to function at a usable speed.

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The problem disappeared after a clean reinstallation using setup to 
re-download everything.  (My actual intent was to have a smaller set of 
download files in order to back up the current cygwin installation to 
CD, but it happened to fix the problem.)

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