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From: "Eugene Rosenzweig" <eugenius259 AT iprimus DOT com DOT au>
To: <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject: Re: possible cygwin bug: delays when using pipes
Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2003 17:31:14 +1100
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Your guess is correct, I do run seti AT home in the background and stopping it
gets rid of the problem. Very unfortunate situation since this makes cygwin
virtually unusable in certain software configurations.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Randall R Schulz" <rrschulz AT cris DOT com>
To: <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Sent: Thursday, January 16, 2003 3:54 AM
Subject: Re: possible cygwin bug: delays when using pipes


> Eugene,
>
>    Cygwin 1.3.18
> + Cygwin pipes
> + background, low-priority CPU load
> = Long delays in Cygwin pipe I/O
>
> Are you running SETI AT home? That seems to be the most popular. It runs at
> the lowest priority, but still produces this symptom.
>
> I've been ignored every time I pointed this out. I guess those of us who
> run Cygwin as well as background CPU-soaker apps will have to choose one
or
> the other (or develop considerable patience while using Cygwin).
>
> Randall Schulz
>


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