Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com; run by ezmlm Sender: cygwin-owner AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com Date: Wed, 9 Jun 1999 16:01:06 -0400 From: cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com To: james AT dattrax DOT demon DOT co DOT uk, cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com Subject: Re: B20 : Bash Problem, Slowing down after 4 hours running (win98) Message-ID: <19990609160106.A1130@cygnus.com> References: <2955d053 DOT 248fbb18 AT aol DOT com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.3i 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 AT aol DOT com wrote: >In a message dated 99-06-09 06:40:37 EDT, james AT dattrax DOT demon DOT co DOT 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 -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com