Re: idle bash using 95% of system resources?

[Jonathan M Merz <merz at studsys dot mscs dot mu dot edu>]

On Wed, Oct 11, 2000 at 09:57:16PM +0100, Henry S. Thompson wrote:
> I'm running netinstalled 1.1.4, including bash 2.04.0, under Win2K.
> 
> I've modified cygwin.bat as follows:
> 
>     C:
>     chdir \cygwin\bin
>     set CYGWIN=tty
>     bash --login -i
> 
> After running for a fair while, I find that I lose performance across
> the board, and that bash is the culprit:  although it's still working
> OK, the Windows Task Manager shows 90--95% of CPU going to bash.
> 
> Anybody else seen this?
> 

I've seen something that may be the same running cygwin 1.1.4 on both WinNT 4 and Win98.  If I start an 
external program and fork it from the shell, i.e:
   gvim.exe &

, and then exit gvim, bash eats up the CPU until I hit return at the prompt to allow the 
    "[1]+  Done        gvim"
message to print.  After the message is shown, things seem to run ok, but bash does eat up the CPU
until the message prints.o

-Jon

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