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Re: cygwin terminal is slow when running Microsoft Word

On 2009-03-04 19:16Z, Paul Cantalupo wrote:
> 
> I'm running cygwin 1.5.25 on XP and I run Office 2003. Whenever
> Microsoft word is open, my cygwin terminal is very slow. This problem
> is specific to Word since having Excel open causes no problems. Has
> anybody seen this?

I would guess 'word' is running a background thread for something
like spell checking. I tried it just now, and saw a temporary
slowdown on the order of twenty-five percent for 'time ls' run in
the foreground, when I have 'word' open with spell checking enabled.

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