[1.7.9] frequent five-second pauses for no apparent reason

Jeremy Hetzler jeremyhetzler@gmail.com
Wed Apr 20 07:48:00 GMT 2011


As of today, I'm experiencing intermittent five-second pauses when I
run Cygwin processes. Even the simplest executables (ls, mkdir) can
experience these freezes. I can't break out of them with ctrl-c. I
stripped down my PATH to /usr/bin with no effect. My Cygwin
installation and home directory are on a local drive.

It sometimes seems to happen on process exit. For example, 'ls --help'
will sometimes print the help and then freeze. Long-running
interactive processes (vim, less) don't seem to freeze during
execution.

I can make it happen more often by stressing the CPU with other Cygwin
processes. For example, a terminal running "while true; do time
ls>/dev/null; sleep 1; done" will only show the problem once in a
while. If I open another terminal and run "while true; do true; done",
it happens constantly.

This only started today, when I ran setup.exe and upgraded everything,
including the cygwin package. Was something changed that might be
causing this?

CYGWIN_NT-5.1 HetzlerXP 1.7.9(0.237/5/3) 2011-03-29 10:10 i686 Cygwin
on WinXP.

Thanks,
Jeremy Hetzler
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