Bash / cygwin process spawning (?) performance very slow

[Marco Atzeri]

On 23/09/2015 17:17, litter@null.net wrote:
>>> for a file of 167 lines. Process Explorer showed a CPU load of 20% on bash.exe, which was almost completely Kernel time.
>>> Is such high Kernel load normal?
>>
>> may be. forks are time consuming and your command is spending all the
>> time in fork
>
> So why is it spending all its time in fork? That is the question.

https://cygwin.com/faq.html#faq.api.fork

>
>> In addition, I suspect your Antivirus is further slowing down the things.
>
> I don't run an Antivirus program

than some thing else is crashing your performance
https://cygwin.com/faq/faq.html#faq.using.bloda


--
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