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Can I speed up cygwin's fork?

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Mar 15, 20265615 views
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I came across a post discussing the speed of forking in Cygwin, giving an expected 'fork rate' in Windows XP of around 30-50 per-second (link) I've got a Core 2 duo (1.79GHz) which I would expect to get comparable results, but it's only managing around 8 forks per second (and sometimes a lot fewer)…

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$ while (true); do date --utc; done | uniq -c
      5 Wed Apr 21 12:38:10 UTC 2010
      6 Wed Apr 21 12:38:11 UTC 2010
      1 Wed Apr 21 12:38:12 U…

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This has nothing to do with fork being slow. I've seen cygwin run dog slow when the windows "home" directory was on a network drive. Every single command would search there for binaries slowing things down tremendously. see if is faster, if so, that…

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