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RE: bash backtick operator very slow
- From: "Neal Symms" <nsymms at redwar dot us>
- To: <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2005 13:41:43 -0600
- Subject: RE: bash backtick operator very slow
> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com [mailto:cygwin-owner@cygwin.com]On Behalf
> Of Igor Pechtchanski
>
> > ~$ time hostname
> > MY_HOSTNAME
> > real 0m0.111s
> > user 0m0.060s
> > sys 0m0.040s
> > [...]
> >
> > ~$ time echo `hostname`
> > MY_HOSTNAME
> > real 0m6.175s
> > user 0m0.060s
> > sys 0m0.050s
> >
> > ..and that was a fast one. Usually it takes > 7 seconds.
>
> Does <http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2005-03/msg00730.html> help?
>
Thanks; that's it exactly, Igor. I was focusing on the backtick, but it
seems to have something to do with spawning shells while there is ANY
low-priority process sucking up all the idle CPU.
The latest cygwin1.dll snapshot solved this problem. I didn't find the
answer in my searches because I was focusing on bash & backticks...
Neal
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