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Re: Bash / cygwin process spawning (?) performance very slow


On 23/09/2015 17:17, litter@null.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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