possible cygwin bug: delays when using pipes

Wed Jan 15 21:17:00 GMT 2003

Eugene,
 Cygwin 1.3.18
+ Cygwin pipes
+ background, low-priority CPU load
= Long delays in Cygwin pipe I/O
Are you running SETI@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
At 04:37 2003年01月15日, Eugene Rosenzweig wrote:
>Seemingly, whenever I use a pipe in bash the cygwin freezes for a long time.
>For example:
>'echo a | cat' takes about 10 seconds to execute, 'bash -l -i' takes about a
>minute.
>>I am not sure when the problem appeared. Might have been last cygwin dll
>release but I am not sure. First time I noticed was running 'bash -l -i'. I
>changed the cygwin.bat recently so for a while I thought it was my meddling
>but as far as I can see that is not the case. Right now the cygwin is quite
>unusable since any non-trivial command line takes a long time to execute.

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