cygport check log tee bash shell > 100MB > 2600 threads

Brian Inglis Brian.Inglis@SystematicSW.ab.ca
Sun Mar 30 18:28:55 GMT 2025


Hi folks,

Running cygport under Cygwin 3.6 for coreutils 9.6, during the post-build 
check/Testing stage the bash shell spawning the check log tee job is showing > 
100MB memory SZ > 28000 pages used > 2600 threads spawned!

Has anyone else noticed this or anything similar recently?

$ uname -srvmo
CYGWIN_NT-10.0-19045 3.6.0-1.x86_64 2025-03-18 17:01 UTC x86_64 Cygwin
$ bash --version
GNU bash, version 5.2.21(1)-release (x86_64-pc-cygwin)
...

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Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis              Calgary, Alberta, Canada

La perfection est atteinte                   Perfection is achieved
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mais lorsqu'il n'y a plus rien à retrancher  but when there is no more to cut
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