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Subject: Re: Bash / cygwin process spawning (?) performance very slow
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From: Marco Atzeri <marco DOT atzeri AT gmail DOT com>
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Date: Wed, 23 Sep 2015 17:58:21 +0200
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On 23/09/2015 17:17, litter AT null DOT net wrote:
>>> for a file of 167 lines. Process Explorer showed a CPU load of 20% on bash.exe, which was almost completely Kernel time.
>>> Is such high Kernel load normal?
>>
>> may be. forks are time consuming and your command is spending all the
>> time in fork
>
> So why is it spending all its time in fork? That is the question.

https://cygwin.com/faq.html#faq.api.fork

>
>> In addition, I suspect your Antivirus is further slowing down the things.
>
> I don't run an Antivirus program

than some thing else is crashing your performance
https://cygwin.com/faq/faq.html#faq.using.bloda


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