On 19.06.2012 14:50, Gerard H. Pille wrote: > Since my system was replaced by one running Windows 7 on an Intel Core > I5, I may call myself lucky if I can work for an hour. Works fine here. May be your hardware is flaky ? RAM for example... Cygwin loads up the system quite well, especially upon fork(). -- Kind regards Pavel Fedin Expert engineer, Samsung Moscow research center -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple