Re: Unacceptable behavior -- slowing down script execution

2010-09-20 Thread SJ Wright
mike marchywka wrote: On 9/17/10, SJ Wright wrote: 4. Is it normal for any script to run CPU usage up to 100%? Unless it is blocking for something like IO including VM swaps, why not? Regarding #4: I have a script that I ran in GNOME Terminal less than an hour ago. I "time"d it

Re: Unacceptable behavior -- slowing down script execution

2010-09-20 Thread Eric Blake
On 09/18/2010 05:35 AM, SJ Wright wrote: Is there any reason, when bash itself nowadays has pretty good tab-completion, why bash-completion is still available in setup.exe or elsewhere in the Luniverse? Yes. Builtin bash completion ONLY targets command names (in the first shell word) and file

Re: Unacceptable behavior -- slowing down script execution

2010-09-18 Thread SJ Wright
Cyrille Lefevre wrote: Le 17/09/2010 18:57, SJ Wright a écrit : 4. Is it normal for any script to run CPU usage up to 100%? a common answer about bash cpu usage is to get rid of bash-completion... if you have it installed, uninstall it, then try again. Regards, Cyrille Lefevre T

Re: Unacceptable behavior -- slowing down script execution

2010-09-18 Thread mike marchywka
On 9/17/10, SJ Wright wrote: > > 4. Is it normal for any script to run CPU usage up to 100%? Unless it is blocking for something like IO including VM swaps, why not? > > Regarding #4: > I have a script that I ran in GNOME Terminal less than an hour ago. I > "time"d it -- the return was 20.6 sec

Re: Unacceptable behavior -- slowing down script execution

2010-09-17 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 9/17/2010 6:46 PM, SJ Wright wrote: The above message:http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2010-09/msg00568.html I have found other messages that discuss the 100% CPU load issue in previous versions of Cygwin. No wonder no one's bothered to answer my questions yet -- evidently one should take it a

Re: Unacceptable behavior -- slowing down script execution

2010-09-17 Thread SJ Wright
SJ Wright wrote: Hi folks. Through fits and starts, and with no more feedback from the list than Dave Korn's self-admitted "wild guess" about gcclib1 folders etc, my Cygwin is no longer shedding empty shell stack-dump files like dandruff. But certain things are continuing to alarm me. I'll pu

Unacceptable behavior -- slowing down script execution

2010-09-17 Thread SJ Wright
Hi folks. Through fits and starts, and with no more feedback from the list than Dave Korn's self-admitted "wild guess" about gcclib1 folders etc, my Cygwin is no longer shedding empty shell stack-dump files like dandruff. But certain things are continuing to alarm me. I'll put them in the form