possible cygwin bug: delays when using pipes

[Eugene Rosenzweig]

Your guess is correct, I do run seti@home in the background and stopping it
gets rid of the problem. Very unfortunate situation since this makes cygwin
virtually unusable in certain software configurations.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Randall R Schulz" <rrschulz@cris.com>
To: <cygwin@cygwin.com>
Sent: Thursday, January 16, 2003 3:54 AM
Subject: Re: possible cygwin bug: delays when using pipes


> Eugene,
>
>    Cygwin 1.3.18
> + Cygwin pipes
> + background, low-priority CPU load
> = Long delays in Cygwin pipe I/O
>
> Are you running SETI@home? That seems to be the most popular. It runs at
> the lowest priority, but still produces this symptom.
>
> I've been ignored every time I pointed this out. I guess those of us who
> run Cygwin as well as background CPU-soaker apps will have to choose one
or
> the other (or develop considerable patience while using Cygwin).
>
> Randall Schulz
>


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