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Subject:  Re: cygwin-1.5.24-2 serious shell execution performance degradation   on  WinXP x64 SP2
Date:  Tue, 04 Sep 2007 12:18:25 +0200
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Carlo Florendo wrote:
 > Szymon Lapinski wrote:
 >> Recently I found a serious performance degradation in my gawk scripts
 >> while running on WinXP x64 SP2, it appears that this is not only gawk
 >> problem, but spawning child processes in a subshell at all.
(...)
 > Child processes failing means that there could be apps running on your
 > machine as a result of the software updates you had.
(...)
 > Is there some chance you are running any of them?

Thank you very much for your reply.
Unfortunately it's not a reason. Those systems are clean Windows 
installations. There are no other applications running in a background. 
Hard disk is almost not fragmented and have a lot of free space.


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Szymon Lapinski


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