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Re: cygwin randomly pauses under Win2k
- From: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" <lhall at rfk dot com>
- To: "Mark Paulus" <mpaulus78 at earthlink dot net>, "cygwin at cygwin dot com" <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2002 12:59:10 -0400
- Subject: Re: cygwin randomly pauses under Win2k
- References: <4.3.1.2.20020416121517.0575fac8@pop.ma.ultranet.com>
Yep. That's the occasional detriment of strace. It hides the problem you're
looking to track. I wouldn't dismiss it's potential as a solution for your
problem so quickly though. strace with a much larger disk and a top-of-the-
line processor is a clear win! ;-)
Sorry it wasn't more help to you.
Larry Hall lhall@rfk.com
RFK Partners, Inc. http://www.rfk.com
838 Washington Street (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office
Holliston, MA 01746 (508) 893-9889 - FAX
At 12:56 PM 4/17/2002, Mark Paulus wrote:
>Great!
>
>I set up a strace on the 'doit script', and the very act of
>running strace seems to make everything behave as
>expected. But, I can't run this thing all the time, as
>strace generates a small quantity of output.
>Oh well, I'll keep monitoring it for a while and see what
>comes out.....
>
>
>
>
>On Tue, 16 Apr 2002 12:17:11 -0400, Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc) wrote:
>
> >At 12:03 PM 4/16/2002, Mark Paulus wrote:
> >>I have this wierd behaviour, and it is causing some stats that I
> >>run to whack out.....
> >>
> >>Every now and again (every 15-30 minutes or so), my cygwin apps
> >>pause for 1-2 MINUTES.... I have written a simple script to capture
> >>this behaviour:
> >
> >
> >If you're interested in trying to track down why you see this behavior, you
> >might want to try running with strace. With it, you should be able to
> >pinpoint any Cygwin internals that are in force when you see this pause.
> >
> >
> >Larry Hall lhall@rfk.com
> >RFK Partners, Inc. http://www.rfk.com
> >838 Washington Street (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office
> >Holliston, MA 01746 (508) 893-9889 - FAX
> >
> >
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