fork() unbearable in VM guest

[Mark Geisert]

Daniel Colascione writes:
> I'm running Cygwin in a fresh 32-bit Windows 7 VirtualBox guest (on an
> OS X code) --- and performance is even more unbearable than usual: each
> process spawned from bash takes about 800ms; on my Windows 7 64-bit box,
> I get at least 8-9 forks per second.
> 
> Any idea what could be wrong?

You mean, besides the additional layer of emulation?  You are comparing apples
to oranges in more ways than one.

..mark


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